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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:40:10 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD security auditing project. 
Message-ID:  <199911240740.AAA18824@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:19:37 %2B1100." <99Nov24.101250est.40341@border.alcanet.com.au> 
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In message <99Nov24.101250est.40341@border.alcanet.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes:
: I suspect that a 'cvs diff' of the OpenBSD code tree is the best
: starting point.

As a veteran of that war, I think you underestimate that task be about
a few orders of magnitude.  A better starting point I've found to be
the ChangeLog files in the CVSROOT directory of the openbsd tree.
After a while, you get a good nose for reading them to know what is
important and what isn't.  Once you hit a program that has had one
fix, it is most productive, I've found, to integrate all the security
and bug fixes things you can find in that program, and then reaudit
the hell of out of it in case you introduce something bogus.

Warner


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