This guy sure seems to have a talent for coincidences
With a limited number of people and places involved in a scene, such 'coincidences' are inevitable. It'd be more surprising if no such connection could be found. Any evidence is lacking.
"... meanwhile in calgary... wasting no time netsec was secretly funnelling "security fixes" through mr.t that he was committing "stealth" into openbsd tree. (this i only knew years later when i was telling mr.t over a beer about the funny people i met on a west-coast trip (see later)). "stealth" means that purpose of the diffs was not disclosed in the commit messages or the private openbsd development forums except with a few "trusted" developers. ..." ~ http://mickey.lucifier.net/b4ckd00r.html
what you say is understandable, but there appeared to be a lot of subterfuge going on.
