On 12/15/2010 02:31 AM, Jon Callas wrote:
 But this way,
the slur has been made in a way that is impossible to discuss. I
think evidence is called for, or failing that, and actual description
of the flaw.


Hot off the presses. Haven't yet decided how much this counts for information. But he does come closer to naming source files.

- Marsh



http://blogs.csoonline.com/1296/an_fbi_backdoor_in_openbsd

he OCF was a target for side channel key leaking mechanisms, as well
as pf (the stateful inspection packet filter), in addition to the
gigabit Ethernet driver stack for the OpenBSD operating system; all
of those projects NETSEC donated engineers and equipment for,
including the first revision of the OCF hardware acceleration
framework based on the HiFN line of crypto accelerators.

The project involved was the GSA Technical Support Center, a circa
1999 joint research and development project between the FBI and the
NSA; the technologies we developed were Multi Level Security controls
for case collaboration between the NSA and the FBI due to the Posse
Commitatus Act, although in reality those controls were only there
for show as the intended facility did in fact host both FBI and NSA
in the same building.

We were tasked with proposing various methods used to reverse
engineer smart card technologies, including Piranha techniques for
stripping organic materials from smart cards and other embedded
systems used for key material storage, so that the gates could be
analyzed with Scanning Electron and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
We also developed proposals for distributed brute force key cracking
systems used for DES/3DES cryptanalysis, in addition to other methods
for side channel leaking and covert backdoors in firmware-based
systems.  Some of these projects were spun off into other sub
projects, JTAG analysis components etc.  I left NETSEC in 2000 to
start another venture, I had some fairly significant concerns with
many aspects of these projects, and I was the lead architect for the
site-to-site VPN project developed for Executive Office for United
States Attorneys, which was a statically keyed VPN system used at
235+ US Attorney locations and which later proved to have been
backdoored by the FBI so that they could recover (potentially) grand
jury information from various US Attorney sites across the United
States and abroad.  The person I reported to at EOSUA was Zal Azmi,
who was later appointed to Chief Information Officer of the FBI by
George W. Bush, and who was chosen to lead portions of the EOUSA VPN
project based upon his previous experience with the Marines (prior to
that, Zal was a mujadeen for Usama bin Laden in their fight against
the Soviets, he speaks fluent Farsi and worked on various incursions
with the CIA as a linguist both pre and post 911, prior to his tenure
at the FBI as CIO and head of the FBI’s Sentinel case management
system with Lockheed).  After I left NETSEC, I ended up becoming the
recipient of a FISA-sanctioned investigation, presumably so that I
would not talk about those various projects; my NDA recently expired
so I am free to talk about whatever I wish.

Here is one of the articles I was quoted in from the NY Times that
touches on the encryption export issue:

In reality, the Clinton administration was very quietly working
behind the scenes to embed backdoors in many areas of technology as a
counter to their supposed relaxation of the Department of Commerce
encryption export regulations – and this was all pre-911 stuff as
well, where the walls between the FBI and DoD were very well
established, at least in theory.

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