"... I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company they worked for)

"... I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into our network stack, ... The mail came in privately from a person I have not talked to for nearly 10 years. I refuse to become part of such a conspiracy ..." If like some you believe there are cyber skirmishes going on, it's also possible PSYOPS are in operation ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare OBSD could be viewed as a hardened OS and therefore a problem. I can't think of a better way to counter Puffys reputation, than with unsubstantiated and difficult to verify information.