Yes, nefarious types would eventually figure it out, but we probably shouldn't 
lay out the red carpet for them either...:)

R.


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of William A. Rowe, Jr.
Sent: Thu 8/10/2006 3:44 PM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Re: CHecking the version of OpenSSL
 
Randy Turner wrote:
> I would probably consider the publishing of the openssl version on the web 
> server announcment message as a security issue.

And some of us would laugh in your general direction ;-)

Exploiters don't need to know, they can just persist till they find
a known exploit.
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