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From: Dev Chanchani <dev@trifecta.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> I'd wager that about 95% of the security problems in FreeBSD could
> solved by going over the OpenBSD cvs logs carefully  and applying
> those patches.  Theo and co have been very careful in their audits of
> their programs.


Warner,
I would agree, there is much to be learned by diff'ing the openbsd source 
tree with the freebsd tree. However, I was under the impression that 
openbsd is more a derivative of netbsd than freebsd. But, I guess most of 
the utilities would yield interesting diff's.

Dev Chanchani