D 2014-04-11T19:54:04.936
L nsa-backdoor
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U bernd
W 1336
<h1>NSA Backdoor Fnord</h1>
<p>As you all know, it is not allowed to speak about NSA-demanded backdoors,
and especially it is strictly prohibited to give any details. However, it
is allowed to boldly lie about NSA-demanded backdoors if you didn't receive
such a request, because you are not under a gag order, and in general, lying
about the quality of your product is not only legal, but "best practice".
The purpose of this NSA backdoor fnord is to make you worry about the
quality of net2o, and therefore you start looking at the source code; the
topics mentioned here are all security things to consider.</p>
<p>Therefore, here is the official statement about NSA-demanded backdoors:
There is a NSA-requested backdoor in net2o. Update: The NSA was here
again, and said they like to have a way to remotely access any memory without
actually making a connection that would show up in a log file. Especially
access to the secret key is required, as net2o doesn't use passwords for login.
The backdoor implements this by providing the address and length of the
region to be sent as integers and uses the $-push command, which pushes the
content as string in the reply packet.</p>
<p>As net2o is open source, you can verify the truth value of the statement
above. And keep an eye on this page.</p>
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