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18: <h2>Year 2000 Compliance Statement.</h2>
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21: As part of our <a href=security.html>security audit</a>, we've done
22: significant work to audit the source tree for <strong>Y2K</strong>
1.2 deraadt 23: flaws. When found, these were fixed before the 2.3 release shipped.
24: We feel that we were pretty thorough -- we even found problems in the
1.4 deraadt 25: dating of nroff-generated manpages. Releases were carefully handled
26: to avoid introducing new flaws.
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29: A few extremely minor flaws were fixed in the 2.4 and 2.5 releases,
30: but all of these were problems without impact. Most of these issues
31: related to programs that still printed dates in 2 digit form -- though
32: they would have correctly printed the year as 00 and not 100. Not a
33: serious issue in our mind when considering that there are other
34: programs in the system which are required (by existing standards) to
35: print dates in such form.
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38: We recommend that paranoid people update to our latest release (which
39: should already be obvious considering our continual improvements to
40: security).
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1.3 ryker 43: A non-comprehensive list of the problems we solved can be gleaned from
1.4 deraadt 44: our Changelogs (available on each CD in <strong>CD2:/Changelogs/</strong>)
1.1 deraadt 45: or in web-based our <a href=plus.html>abbreviated daily log</a>.
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48: At this time, we do not know of any Y2K flaws. If anyone becomes aware
49: of a flaw which we missed, please inform our developers so that it can
1.5 ! deraadt 50: be fixed.
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! 53: If you want a gaurantee from us, please read the copyright on our source
! 54: code files. If you came here expecting a gaurantee, perhaps you should
! 55: try extracting one from another source, like Microsoft. Either you are
! 56: laughing now, or they will be laughing at you when you phone them.
! 57: Hopefully you now recognize how ridiculous it is to ask a free software
! 58: project for a gaurantee when vendors making lots of money won't even do
! 59: so for their own software.
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