Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:58:34 -0500 From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: New FreeBSD Security Officer Message-ID: <CADA95E7-71A9-485F-B262-FE859316A4C3@freebsd.org>
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Hello Everyone! It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as the FreeBSD Security Officer for the past 3+ years. With the crucial support of the FreeBSD Security Team members, a lot has been accomplished: hundreds of security issues have been researched and tracked, with some resulting in security advisories and patches; software in the Ports Collection are updated more quickly to remove vulnerabilities; flaws are well-documented in the Vulnerabilities and Exposures Markup Language (VuXML); communication with other software and hardware vendors, security researchers, and emergency response organizations has grown greatly; and the FreeBSD Security Branches are now supported for much longer period of time over a greater number of releases. I'd like to thank the members of the security team over the past few years for these accomplishments: Eivind Eklund, Julian Elischer, Chris Faulhaber, Bill Fumerola, Daniel Harris, Trevor Johnson, Remko Lodder, Simon Nielsen, Christian Peron, Wes Peters, Josef El-Rayes, Tom Rhodes, Gregory Shapiro, Bruce Simpson, Dag- Erling Smørgrav, and Robert Watson. Several of our previous security officers have also given much help: Kris Kennaway, Warner Losh, and Guido van Rooij. I asked the FreeBSD Core Team to offer the security officer role to Colin Percival, and I am happy to say that they agreed and that Colin accepted. Colin has been a FreeBSD committer since January 2004, and has been an energetic member of the FreeBSD Security Team for most of that time. He is well-known for his software creations "FreeBSD Update", "portsnap", and "bsdiff"; as well as his paper published earlier this year, "Cache Missing for Fun and Profit" <URL:http:// www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf>. I have no doubt that he will do an outstanding job fulfilling the FreeBSD Security Officer's charter. Thanks for everyone's support over the years, and please extend the same and more for Colin! Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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