Developer defends claims of backdoors in OpenBSD
The former OpenBSD developer who has caused a stir by claiming that the FBI had, through certain other OpenBSD developers, planted backdoors in its cryptographic code, says he raised the matter only to encourage a source code audit of the OpenBSD project.
Gregory Perry made the claim in an email to OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt who posted the mail along with his comments to the openbsd-tech mailing list.
Perry, chief executive of a company named GoVirtual, told iTWire: "I have absolutely, positively nothing to gain from making those statements to Theo, and only did so to encourage a source code audit of the OpenBSD Project based upon the expiry of my NDA with the FBI. Being in any limelight is not my bag at all."
An audit of the cryptographic code has commenced and de Raadt told iTWire yesterday that two bugs had been found.
Perry said he had sent a private email to de Raadt, urging him to perform a source code audit of the OpenBSD Project based upon the allegations contained within the mail.
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