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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:31:52 +1100
From:      Nicholas Brawn <nick@citadel.com.au>
To:        <mike@seidata.com>, andrewr <andrewr@slack.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, jbowie@slack.net
Subject:   Re: disapointing security architecture 
Message-ID:  <199903120830.TAA28219@goblin.citadel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903111504320.29076-100000@ns1.seidata.com>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990311121039.6524A-100000@brooklyn.slack.net>

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I'm also interested. However, if I recall correctly, the problem last time
was that nobody actually sat down and did the work. There were plenty of
ideas, but when it came to the crunch, nobody wanted to put in the effort.

Nick

At 03:25 PM 3/11/99 -0500, mike@seidata.com wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, andrewr wrote:
>
>> So, I do extend this offer, if you are interested in doing an audit or
>> delve into the security implementations that FreeBSD has/does not have,
>
>Here, here.  Finally, this thread takes a useful turn.  ;)
>
>I am extremely interested in the security development of the FreeBSD
>system.  I'd be willing to dedicate server resources (mailing lists,
>archives, shell accounts, whatever) to such a project...  as others
>are, I'm sure.
>
>> forum for this and not much more.  I know of a few people already that do
>> personal kernel modifications for increased security measures I encourage
>> you to participate.
>
>A forum for exchange of such information would be very useful, but
>what is the purpose of -security (announces/fixes only?).  There's
>also the already substantial list of helpful resources provided by
>http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html.  Also, there was an
>auditing project underway (forget the URL)...
>
>I agree we need to be active and work together on this, but we don't
>want to waste time reinventing the wheel or redoing what other
>projects have already accomplished.
>
>Later,
>
>					-Mike
>
>
>
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Nicholas Brawn, Systems Engineer
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