Re: OpenVMS Security

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 08/26/03 

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:48:15 +0100

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Bob Ceculski wrote:
>
>> one more great place to get a really good idea is the cert site ...
>>
>> OpenVMS the last time I checked had 31 certs in 13 years while
>
> <snip>
> Those certs in the search statistics also include were the operating
> system was listed as "Not Vulnerable", and some of them are summary
> lists, which duplicate all previous listings.
>
> So a search for any platform will reveal more certs than there actually
> are.
>
> You have to look at each cert document and manually weed out the
> duplicates and summaries to get the true totals.
>
> Statistics are useful, but raw data is sometimes misleading.

Or simply incorrect in the case of OpenVMS where CERTs that
OpenVMS was vunerable to were incorrectly responded to or not
responded to at.

Regards
Andrew Harrison

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