On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 03:26:07AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > I don't understand very much technical details of this topic, > neither I want to troll, but my curiousity is if OpenBSD devs > follow Bruce Schneier arguments and whole topic and if they > have done, do or will do some re-evaluation of crypto in OpenBSD > to minimalize being vulnerable to describe attacks. > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html
Re-evaluation and auditing is very much a part of the general OpenBSD development process (see eg http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and http://www.openbsd.org/security.html, with links therein) already, but I wouldn't be surprised if recent revelations lead to more activity on that front. On a related note, I quite enjoyed reading FreeBSD developer Colin Percival's take on the various revelations and claims: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-09-10-I-might-be-a-spook.html - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
