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                      4: <title>OpenBSD Y2K Statement</title>
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1.6       deraadt    17: <h2><font color=#e00000>Year 2000 Compliance Statement</font><hr></h2>
1.1       deraadt    18:
                     19: <p>
                     20: As part of our <a href=security.html>security audit</a>, we've done
                     21: significant work to audit the source tree for <strong>Y2K</strong>
1.2       deraadt    22: flaws.  When found, these were fixed before the 2.3 release shipped.
                     23: We feel that we were pretty thorough -- we even found problems in the
1.4       deraadt    24: dating of nroff-generated manpages.  Releases were carefully handled
                     25: to avoid introducing new flaws.
                     26:
                     27: <p>
                     28: A few extremely minor flaws were fixed in the 2.4 and 2.5 releases,
                     29: but all of these were problems without impact.  Most of these issues
                     30: related to programs that still printed dates in 2 digit form -- though
                     31: they would have correctly printed the year as 00 and not 100.  Not a
                     32: serious issue in our mind when considering that there are other
                     33: programs in the system which are required (by existing standards) to
                     34: print dates in such form.
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        !            38: The 2.5 i386 port has a BIOS-related Y2K patch which people should apply.
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1.4       deraadt    42: We recommend that paranoid people update to our latest release (which
                     43: should already be obvious considering our continual improvements to
                     44: security).
1.1       deraadt    45:
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1.3       ryker      47: A non-comprehensive list of the problems we solved can be gleaned from
1.4       deraadt    48: our Changelogs (available on each CD in <strong>CD2:/Changelogs/</strong>)
1.7       deraadt    49: or in our web-based <a href=plus.html>abbreviated daily log</a>.
1.1       deraadt    50:
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                     52: At this time, we do not know of any Y2K flaws.  If anyone becomes aware
                     53: of a flaw which we missed, please inform our developers so that it can
1.5       deraadt    54: be fixed.
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1.6       deraadt    57: If you want a guarantee from us, please read the copyright on our source
                     58: code files.  If you came here expecting a guarantee, perhaps you should
1.5       deraadt    59: try extracting one from another source, like Microsoft.  Either you are
                     60: laughing now, or they will be laughing at you when you phone them.
                     61: Hopefully you now recognize how ridiculous it is to ask a free software
1.6       deraadt    62: project for a guarantee when vendors making lots of money won't even do
1.5       deraadt    63: so for their own software.
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1.8     ! deraadt    68: <br><small>$OpenBSD: y2k.html,v 1.7 1999/09/22 22:16:46 deraadt Exp $</small>
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