On 12/15/2010 01:32 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On December 14, 2010 8:40:14 PM -0500 b...@fbi.dhs.org wrote: > So for 10 years IPSEC has had a backdoor in it and not one person examining > the code has noticed it? Or even questioned it? That's a bit hard to > believe. It's along the same lines as the stories that Microsoft captures > all your packets and harvests your personal information. > > Read The Cathedral and The Bazaar. >
Yeah, just like there was no way to miss the SSL renegotiation flaw for so many years. Or "The Kaminsky Bug". Or the recent downgrade flaw in OpenSSL. Or.. Note all those examples are (assumed?) non-malicious. Imagine if really knowledgeable programmers and crypto people got together to try to hide such things. See the "Underhanded C" contest for examples. http://underhanded.xcott.com/ This stuff is *hard*, and talent is valuable and already spread thin. -- | Steven Pinkham, Security Consultant | | http://www.mavensecurity.com | | GPG public key ID CD31CAFB |
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