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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 1999 08:43:21 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD security auditing project.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911240842330.318-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991123140303.B49964@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, David O'Brien wrote:

> > So when Joe Blow clicks on (say) src->bin->cat he'll find that
> > (say) markm eyballed the code and kris diffed it with OpenBSD
> > and merged in <blah> fixes - "cat now considered safe".
> 
> Until the next commit to cat.
> 
> A security review is never done.  We need to be in a mode where every
> commit is suspect and people are compelled to review it.  BDE's use of
> CTM to review changes is actually rather affective in this reguard.

We need to put audit tags into the source tree when a file is audited.
That allows the diffs to be audited later which should be a smaller job
and then the audit tag slides forward.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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