The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt.
A former government contractor says that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system.
The OpenBSD project has announced the availability of release 4.6 which debuts a new mail server and an easier installation among many other feature enhancements and bug fixes for the open source operating system.
The April-May 2009 cusp has been a big week for open source BSD operating systems with both OpenBSD 4.5 and NetBSD 5.0 released to the public.
OpenBSD founder and release manager Theo de Raadt has announced the release and availability of version 4.4 with numerous feature enhancements and bug fixes from the previous release.