From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 11 16:41:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E293537B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (racine.noos.net [212.198.2.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF2043E3B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 25144825 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jul 2002 23:41:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.153]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.71 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Jul 2002 23:41:23 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.dyndns.org (p30gzk1gsk3l1bp2@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6BNfMTL025756; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:41:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6BNfL2E025755; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:41:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:41:21 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre To: Alex Cc: Jeremy Suo-Anttila , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: : hiding OS name Message-ID: <20020711234121.GK21234@gits.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: Cyrille Lefevre , Alex , Jeremy Suo-Anttila , security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19624177455.20020709175744@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19624177455.20020709175744@dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:57:44PM +0200, Alex wrote: > Hello/Beste Jeremy, > > Tuesday, July 09, 2002, 5:52:43 PM, you wrote: > > JSA> Just because the firewall is OpenBSD do NOT make it anymore secure then a > JSA> well tuned and hardened FreeBSD box. The box is only as secure as the > JSA> administrator maintaining it. > > OpenBSD had earned it reputation on security. It score a little better > then FreeBSD on this topic. At the very least you have less possibility > of a insecure system. OpenBSD would be the best general choice one thing I dislike w/ OpenBSD is that there are almost no advisories ? are they "so" secure or are they just hidding things like "not seen, not caught" ? Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message