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Date:      Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:04:01 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        dyson@freebsd.org
Cc:        deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt), downsj@teeny.org, 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:  <9517.845708641@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Oct 1996 01:50:02 CDT." <199610190650.BAA02780@dyson.iquest.net> 

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In message <199610190650.BAA02780@dyson.iquest.net>, "John S. Dyson" writes:
>> > 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...
> :-(.
>> 
>> Ah John, ever eager to continue a flame war aren't you.
>> 
>Please refer to the message that I commented on...  I am NOT flaming,
>simply stating an outsiders view of the unsubstantiated OpenBSD position.
>BTW, what flame war?  Why are you bringing flamage up?
>

Because obviously Theo is Very Proud of his fix :-)

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