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approaches towards fixing security problems.

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Like most members of the

Like most readers of the

BUGTRAQ mailing list (which rarely sees OpenBSD security reports

BUGTRAQ mailing list</a>,

these days :-)</a>,

we believe in full disclosure of security problems. We believe that

we believe in full disclosure of security problems. We have found

security information moves very fast in crackers circles. Our

that the coding of proper fixes to security problems typically only

experience shows that coding and release of proper security fixes

requires about 4-5 minutes of coding. Thus we typically have fixes

typically requires about an hour of work resulting in very fast fix

available extremely quickly.

turnaround. Thus we think that full disclosure helps the people who

really care about security.

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