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Date:      Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:01:32 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        dyson@freebsd.org
Cc:        downsj@teeny.org (Jason Downs), ache@nagual.ru, dg@Root.COM, gritton@byu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/db/hash hash_buf.c 
Message-ID:  <9491.845708492@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Oct 1996 01:26:31 CDT." <199610190626.BAA02729@dyson.iquest.net> 

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In message <199610190626.BAA02729@dyson.iquest.net>, "John S. Dyson" writes:
>> 
>> Ah, yes.  I've been watching this thread with some amount of amusement, as
>> have other OpenBSD developers.
>> 
>> Yes, please back it out.  I would rather have OpenBSD remain the most secure
>> version of UNIX that money can't buy.
>> 
>
>Additionally, that "fix" was simply the wrong thing to do, and there are
>better ways to deal with the problem.  If the zeroing the buffer in db
>was typical of the ways that others are "fixing" security, well...  Sad... :-(
>.

"Have foot, will shoot" was what I read it as :-)

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