Subject: Re: FreSSH
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/08/2002 00:34:17
[ On Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 20:45:53 (-0800), John Nemeth wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: FreSSH
>
>      When you consider all the squawking that the OpenBSD crowd does
> about why their code is so secure because they audit it amongst other
> things, I want it to not have the bugs.  SSH is an extremely important
> security related application.  It shouldn't have security holes.

Well it wasn't all their code to begin with, and I suspect a lot of it
has still not really been properly rewritten.

And there is a _lot_ of it (code that is, in OpenSSH + OpenSSL).  Almost
all code has bugs, and the more code there is the more bugs there are,
and the bigger and nastier they usually get.

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