Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:33:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: security: what does OpenBSD have, that FreeBSD doesn't have. Message-ID: <XFMail.990523103320.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990523094555.A33370@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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Hi Andreas =)
On 23-May-99 Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Am currently discussing FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD in private e-mail.
>
> What make OpenBSD so "secure" ? Or can this kind of security be
> reproduced with FreeBSD ports ? I think of tools like:
Ye missed one of the most important things: auditing of the sourcecode.
The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but
then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia.
OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses thta
border) on paranoia, wrt code.
A lot of the security tools can be get from the ports, but the true
security of a system lies in the eye of the admin. I have known admins whom
I would never trust mission critical security systems to.
HTH,
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project
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