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Greg's response is understandably frustrated, though seemingly less so than the OpenBSD devs. Why are they being repeatedly left out of the loop?

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OpenBSD has been accused of breaking embargoes in the past. They are pretty open about their policy of pushing their fix as soon as it's ready and not doing anything to obfuscate what they're fixing and why.

Can you provide some links for that?

I feel like this is a thing people repeat, specifically about KRACK and its been shown to be false multiple times (like here: https://lobste.rs/s/dwzplh/krack_attacks_breaking_wpa2#c_pbh...).

> They are pretty open about their policy of pushing their fix as soon as it's ready and not doing anything to obfuscate what they're fixing and why.

This isn't true at all. Please stop spreading misinformation.

Neither of you have provided citation or reasoning. You basically just said "nah uh"

amaranth didn't provide any citation or reasoning either. The difference of course being that he holds the burden of proof.

Edit: Actually the other guy did post a link that explains it so you comment is silly for two reasons.

Perhaps, but it rather behooves the one making the accusation to substantiate it with evidence. I don't see how the one claiming that they don't leak can provide evidence of not leaking!

What is the reason then? (And what has led people to have that perception?)

Its not that OpenBSD breaks embargoes, it's that they won't just be strung along delaying embargoes for ever. So they can't be trusted to extend an embargoes. They probably would be happy to if there was a good reason, but not for bad reasons.

Theo de Raadt answers that at https://youtu.be/UaQpvXSa4X8?t=4m7s

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