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Re: bogosec: msg#00014

Subject: Re: bogosec
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:20:39AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder whether there is any infrastructure for regular, automated security
> checks or at least heuristics and statistics somewhere in Debian?
> Something like the lintian.debian.org which generates nice webpages with
> statistics and stuff?

Well, we have not done but talked about it a while back. I had some things
done but not yet a "product"

> I recently stumbled over bogosec which basically runs flawfinder, rats
> and ITS4 on packages and tries to generate metrics...

Looks *very* interesting.

> I imagine something like that (amended with more tools, e.g. bfbtester,
> pscan etc. etc.) could be useful to get an impression on the overall
> quality of packages and Debian as a whole, and/or to find "juicy" targets
> for audits...

I agree wholeheartedly and would really love this to go through. If you are
going to MX we could discuss about it there.

Regards

Javier

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