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1.6 deraadt 17: <h2><font color=#e00000>Year 2000 Compliance Statement</font><hr></h2>
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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.
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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).
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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>.
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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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