[H-GEN] qmail security bounty

Martin Pool mbp at pharos.com.au
Thu Dec 4 20:25:50 EST 1997


...  In February, 1996, Daniel J. Bernstein released the first public beta
test version of qmail, a Message Transfer Agent (MTA). One of his primary
motivations for developing qmail was the notorious insecurity of the
"standard" UNIX MTA, sendmail. ...

... Now that qmail version 1.01 is available, a group of qmail supporters
from the djb-qmail mailing list has pooled its resources and issued a
challenge to the UNIX security community intended to subject qmail to the
same kind of rigorous inspection that sendmail has been given. They're
offering a cash prize (currently about $1000) to the first person or group
to find a security bug in qmail. ... 

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Martin Pool

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