From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 20 13: 8: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49C637B67E; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:07:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Greg Lewis Cc: "Joachim [Str_mbergson]" , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of FreeBSD security work? Audit, regression and crypto swap? In-Reply-To: <200007170151.LAA94006@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Greg Lewis wrote: > Joachim [Str_mbergson] wrote: > > (1) So, what's the status of the FreeBSD security audit? Anything that > > could need a hand? > > You need the freebsd-audit list :) > > > (3) OpenBSD 2.7 introduced crypto swap. After reading through mr Provos > > paper about crypto swap (and the stuff he found on his swap, among other > > things), I got interested in trying this out myself. Is anybody looking > > at this for FreeBSD? Would it be a good idea, anything of value for > > FreeBSD? > > I think the recent import of TCFS into OpenBSD > is also fairly interesting. From what I discussed with Niels Provos at USENIX, this isn't really the interesting part ;) The interesting part is that he is going to be working on seriously improving TCFS, and importing it was just a tiny step that shows he's starting on that :) We'll definitely want to pay attention to the work he's doing on TCFS; he said that it will basically be a rewrite. > -- > Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au > Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 > Teletraffic Research Centre -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message