From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 13 0:15:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7198A156DF for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA26162; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:14:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id BAA08901; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:14:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908130714.BAA08901@harmony.village.org> To: Darren Reed Subject: Re: "Secure-FreeBSD" Idea Cc: gill@topsecret.net (James Gill), tomb@securify.com, andrewr@slack.net, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:31:44 +1000." <199908130431.OAA23238@cheops.anu.edu.au> References: <199908130431.OAA23238@cheops.anu.edu.au> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:14:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199908130431.OAA23238@cheops.anu.edu.au> Darren Reed writes: : NetBSD's primarily goal is stability and portability although they seem : to discover new security problems more often than OpenBSD people do. By : that I mean problems which involve more than program X having a new buffer : overflow problem. Are you counting the hundreds of buffer overflows that OpenBSD fixed to begin with? I've seen many many many more buffer overflows from OpenBSD than from NetBSD. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message