----- Forwarded message from Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> ----- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:59:51 -0400 From: Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> To: pfSense support and discussion <list@lists.pfsense.org> Subject: Re: [pfSense] NSA: Is pfSense infiltrated by "big brother" NSA or others? Message-ID: <52557D77.6000504@pingle.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Reply-To: pfSense support and discussion <list@lists.pfsense.org> On 10/9/2013 11:20 AM, Paul Kunicki wrote:

I think that in light of the recent news of the NSA coercing various organizations to provide them with means to eavesdrop this message has merit and deserves response although I doubt the NSA really needs cooperation from these guys. Does anyone else care to comment ?

As far as I'm aware, nobody has contacted us, but if they did I may not know. They aren't really interested in end-user firewalls, they want infrastructure routers. We had a discussion on this already a month ago. http://lists.pfsense.org/pipermail/list/2013-September/004543.html Our code is all open source. In addition to our own code, code is also pulled from places such as FreeBSD, OpenSSL, and so on. So while our code is clean, it might be possible that if something we depend on has a flaw (perhaps by design in an encryption algorithm...) then it might be carried over. Nothing intentional on our part, and if such a thing is discovered and the offending code is fixed, we'd pull it in ASAP. So it would be more interesting to focus on FreeBSD, OpenSSL, OpenVPN, racoon, and other similar projects upon which we depend. Jim _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5