Re: DHS Open Source Hardening Project

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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 14:13:05 -0400,
  "McGuffey, David C." <DAVID.C.MCGUFFEY@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I understand that DHS is funding an effort to use commercial tools to
> find bugs in open source software.  I guess the official name is
> Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, Open Source Hardening Project,
> but the common handle seems to be simply Open Source Hardening Project. 
> 
> There was an interesting article at ZDnet...some pros and some cons:
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6025579.html 
> 
> Question...is the Fedora development community benefiting from this
> effort?

I wouldn't expect there to be direct visibility to Fedora as that kind
of work is going to be upstream of Fedora. I am aware of Coverity providing
information (though I am not sure if it was funded by DHS, it may have
been part of their marketing strategy) for some projects that have code
in Fedora (e.g. Postgres).

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