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You might claim that the security design of OpenBSD does not scale, and the observations of the parent article do cast some reasonable doubt on code security.
by chasil 7y ago
You might claim that the security design of OpenBSD does not scale, and the observations of the parent article do cast some reasonable doubt on code security.
However, a number of projects from OpenBSD have been widely adopted and are successful in their own right, for example:
C:\>ssh -V
OpenSSH_for_Windows_7.6p1, LibreSSL 2.6.4
The two projects above, OpenSSH and LibreSSL, have been even more strongly adopted by Apple, as I understand it. OpenSSH is adopted by just about everybody.
Google Android's "bionic" C library is also based on OpenBSD, and I would imagine that the coding concerns for libc will trickle down.
OpenBSD is not the sum of its parts, as so much of it is used in other environments.
- loeg 7y agoBionic took pieces from OpenBSD, as well as other places[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_(software)#Components https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_(software)#Components