What make OpenBSD so secure ? Or can this kind of security be
reproduced with FreeBSD ports ? I think of tools like:
It's not the tools but the amount of time supposedly invested in
improving security. I say supposedly because a lot of the buffer
overflow issues they've dealt with haven't been
I'm not sure..I've been wandering through the openbsd source tree and merging
useful diffs from binaries, but I haven't been too organised about it so far,
and haven't encountered much in the way of important fixes. I'm sure there
are some, though.
While it can rightfully be said that OpenBSD
Hi Andreas =)
On 23-May-99 Andreas Klemm wrote:
Am currently discussing FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD in private e-mail.
What make OpenBSD so secure ? Or can this kind of security be
reproduced with FreeBSD ports ? I think of tools like:
Ye missed one of the most important things: auditing of the
The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but
then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia.
OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses thta
border) on paranoia, wrt code.
Given the number of postings to BUGTRAQ
On 23-May-99 sth...@nethelp.no wrote:
The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but
then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia.
OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses
that border) on paranoia, wrt code.
On Sun, 23 May 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote:
The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but
then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia.
OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses thta
border) on paranoia, wrt
| One of my plans is to merge all of these changes into our tree (along with all
| the other minor changes/manpage corrections, etc).
|
| Longer term, I'd like to work on porting some of their kernel code like
| randomized sin_port selection and TCP initial sequence numbering, probably
| hidden
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pine.osf.4.10.9905232037320.11148-100...@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au Kris
Kennaway writes:
: One of my plans is to merge all of these changes into our tree
: (along with all the other minor changes/manpage corrections, etc).
Which ones are currently missing?
Also, beware. Most
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
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pine.osf.4.10.9905232037320.11148-100...@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au
Kris Kennaway writes:
: One of my plans is to merge all of these changes into our tree
: (along with all the other minor changes/manpage corrections, etc).
Which
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