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Old 27th March 2021
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Default FreeBSD port of Wireguard Code Quality Disaster

A must read https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021...3s-close-call/
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In my professional life, I work for my company's Linux OS and Kernel team. I contribute to the Linux kernel from time to time (1 driver from scratch, multiple bug fixes, almost all my enhancements have been rejected). I gained the impression that my code has been thoroughly reviewed. I don't live in the LKML but around the time I submit a patch I read the LKML and I believe the review process is thorough.

I hope my account will not get revoked for saying this aloud, but that's why my internet facing computer - my router - runs Debian.

My desktop runs BSD because BSDs keep the UNIX spirit alive.

The main reason I don't want to run BSD on internet facing computers is that I don't know the review process and code quality of the BSDs. What the article describes is devastating.
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OpenBSD code is thoroughly reviewed.
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It may be instructive to compare the introduction of WireGuard in OpenBSD:

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=arti...20200622052207

The code was submitted by the Wireguard developers themselves and reviewed by dlg@ (and probably other developers as well).
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