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by daneel_w 671 days ago
It was talk about a backdoor in OpenBSD's IPsec stack. The software was audited and nothing was found. The person who stepped forward (after being named) claimed on Twitter to have been formerly involved with the FBI and a supposed project of theirs looking into the feasibility of infiltrating the OpenBSD developer sphere in order to plant a backdoor, but that the project never reached planning.

Edit: the discussions and auditing of the IPsec stack happened around 2011 if memory serves me right. The supposed backdoor "happened" a decade earlier. The "agent" was named Greg Perry.