Re: secrets and lies

[Mate Wierdl]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:39:25PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> >So has any expert ever audited qmail or djbdns?
> 
> No. Any audit worth doing would be prohibitively expensive for a
> freeware project. $1000 wouldn't even begin to cover it, at least for
> qmail.

I need to add that Schneier thinks open source is the only way for
secure software.  Are not there many experts/half experts regularly
auditing the Linux kernel?  It is weird that no one has ever audited
qmail or djbdns, while many big businesses are using them...

Mate