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                      4: <title>OpenBSD Y2K Statement</title>
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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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                     37: <p>
                     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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