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wlangstroth

I thought this was hacker news. Are we going to yammer or are we going to look at the code?

Anyone familiar with the code in question? Even the neighbourhood would be helpful.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/

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to feed your paranoia:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129237675106730&w...

Paranoia? I wasn't looking for a smoking gun, I was looking for an illustration of business as usual.

>We have never allowed US citizens or foreign citizens working in the US to hack on crypto code

This is hilarious logic, because no other country could possibly want to have a backdoor, and the NSA/CIA couldn't possibly hire a foreign national working in another country.

It has nothing to do with that. The rationale for this is to avoid any problems with US law regarding the exporting of cryptographic software:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...

It has to do with the laws the US places on exporting crypto.

I get the impression crypto is very hard to implement right, which would mean it's very hard to evaluate.

"Hard" is just an opportunity to learn something. Are you saying you're not a hacker?

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