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OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER

ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our

open software development model permits us to take a more

uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP,

uncompromising view towards increased security than most vendors are

or other vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would

able to. We can make changes the vendors would

not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with <a href=crypto.html>

cryptography</a>, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards

fixing security problems.<p>

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<li>Chroot jailing

<li>New uids

<li>ProPolice

<li>... and others

<li>... <a href="/innovations.html">and others</a>

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carefully). Users can make the assumption that the current

source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.

However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;

it is nearly 850MB of source code, and problems do occur as we

it is over 850MB of source code, and problems do occur as we

transition between major releases.

<li>Install a binary snapshot for your

architecture, which are made available fairly often. For

instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.

instance, an amd64 snapshot is typically made available daily.

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