Hi Andreas =)
On 23-May-99 Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Am currently discussing FreeBSD vs. OpenBSD in private e-mail.
>
> What make OpenBSD so "secure" ? Or can this kind of security be
> reproduced with FreeBSD ports ? I think of tools like:
Ye missed one of the most important things: auditing of the sourcecode.
The OpenBSD team does a lot wrt auditing of the complete sourcetree, but
then the question is: is this valid concern or is this pure paranoia.
OpenBSD does a lot of valid changes but borders (and sometimes crosses thta
border) on paranoia, wrt code.
A lot of the security tools can be get from the ports, but the true
security of a system lies in the eye of the admin. I have known admins whom
I would never trust mission critical security systems to.
HTH,
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project
Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>
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