Just out of curiosity...

> Is it logical to use an OS for the intense focus on security and
> correctness, yet download the binaries from a random person on a mailing
> list instead of any official source with reasonable file integrity
> checking process in place?

From:

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=ftp.openbsd.org

Site http://ftp.openbsd.org

Reverse DNS     openbsd.sunsite.ualberta.ca

Netblock Owner  IP address      OS      Web Server      Last changed

University of Alberta 1030 General Services Building Edmonton
CA      129.128.5.191   Solaris Apache/1.3.34 Unix PHP/4.4.2
mod_perl/1.27   17-Apr-2007

What a security!!

FYI:

"Trojaned version of OpenSSH package has been found to reside on
ftp.openbsd.org's server."

http://www.mavetju.org/unix/openssh-trojan.php
http://www.openssh.org/txt/trojan.adv

Are you remember?

--
JS

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