Re: FOSS and backdoors in the US

Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:

Marco Moock wrote:
 

Hello!
 
Various governments around the world - including the US and EU -
want to have backdoors in encryption technology.
 
Is there anything known how FOSS developers will deal with that?
 
Especially if they are enforced to implement backdoors.
 
 

 
If I would be forced, which I doubt, I would comment the code with
something like this:
 
// backdoor begins here
 
backdoor code
 
// backdoor ends here
 
and put in the README how to exchange that code with proper one.

Likely would not work well.  Such forcing would likely also be
accompanied by a gag order preventing you from admitting the backdoor
even exists and so such comments and readme text would be a likely gag
order violation that would land you in jail.