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Old 24th December 2010
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Default OpenBSD: audits give no indication of back doors

From http://www.h-online.com/security/new...s-1158604.html

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So far, the analyses of OpenBSD's crypto and IPSec code have not provided any indication that the system contains back doors for listening to encrypted VPN connections
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That's good. They were able to find two bugs, so it shows they combed the code well and still didn't find any backdoors.

Perhaps they could also use a third party audit, such as:

http://securityevaluators.com/conten...ode-review.jsp

Although I remember in Sep. 2009 they had financial troubles, so it might be too hard to muster up the kind of money they would need for something like that.
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Coverity conducted an audit several years ago. While it was not focused in this area it did find some things that manual code walk through had missed.
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