I am speaking from memory here but I think Jacob Appelbaum said in a speech that SSH keys were broken and the NSA had made it not secure...

I believe you either make a confusion with:
SSL with a RC4 cypher: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/06/nsa_cryptobreaking_bullrun_analysis/ (SSH does not use that) or with small RSA keys: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2064960/google-strengthens-its-ssl-configuration-against-possible-attacks.html (OpenSSH's default is 2048 bit long); or with the bug introduced in the Debian package (only) for the generation of random numbers: https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576 (corrected in 2008).


As for the transparent audit, I think (again from memory) that Theo de Radt (the main guy behind OpenBSD) had refused to provide the results of an independent review of OpenBSD code.

Any reference?

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