Here’s one of the academics from the papers I linked above explaining his “pet” theory: https://mobile.twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1433476266... The papers explain more in detail, and the ACM publication seems reasonable to characterize as peer reviewed for some value of that depending on your impression of ACM.
You asked for “any evidence” and those papers explain the how, while Wired explains the what and reporting on the Project BULLRUN clearly lays out the why. It is undeniable that U.S. government sabotage to benefit NSA surveillance is involved in deployed Juniper devices. It is also widely discussed that those sabotaged devices were used by OPM. It is understood by many reasonable people in the know that OPM was hacked by Chinese intelligence and that they likely did this by compromising at least one Juniper device. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-02/juniper-m... for the Chinese link, for one example.
Bloomberg says: “The NSA introduces an algorithm called Dual Elliptic Curve...”
“...which it urges the National Institute of Standards and Technology to approve.”
“The Pentagon—NSA’s parent agency—insists that Juniper Networks use the algorithm as a condition for some contracts. Juniper adds it to NetScreen’s ScreenOS software.”
“This introduces an alleged backdoor that could be used to spy on select NetScreen customers, which include telecommunications providers and government agencies. Juniper includes two tweaks that it says neutralize the vulnerability.”
There are other sources which investigated this topic.
You don’t have to connect the dots, or believe the reprint from several reputable journalists or academics but I would appreciate you acknowledging that it’s not something that I made up. Many reasonable people have concluded that the NSA sabotage played some role in the OPM hack as a result of the link to Juniper.
The attack against OPM leveraged juniper bugs, which clearly exceeds your claims. I acknowledged that your claim is at least the bare minimum possible. However there is ample evidence that is goes much much further. At the time this happened, people pushed back that it was even plausible, and the paper represents a better investigation than I will be able to provide on a message board.
What I hope we can also agree on is that a complete lack of transparency means we cannot fairly adjudicate this in public to completion. Juniper, the FBI and the NSA, and indeed NIST, have not provided a full analysis to the public or even to the relevant IG as far as I understand things.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... for many other sources, as well as https://fcw.com/security/2021/01/lawmakers-press-nsa-for-ans... and this gem of a FOIA: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/inf...
So since your stated request was any evidence, I think I have shown that I didn’t make this up out of the thin air.
