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OpenSSH 5.0 released

OpenSSH 5.0 released

Posted Apr 4, 2008 22:36 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: OpenSSH 5.0 released by jond
Parent article: OpenSSH 5.0 released

I don't think it counts as "hiding"; it is just "discreetly fixing before revealing"; other innocent parties can get hurt if this kind of information is disclosed. And after all the security team is not supposed to sit on security bugs indefinitely.


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OpenSSH 5.0 released

Posted Apr 7, 2008 10:21 UTC (Mon) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

To quote that part of the social contract in full:

"We will keep our entire bug report database open for public view at all times. Reports that
people file online will promptly become visible to others."

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