Re: [Full-Disclosure] OpenSSH - is X-Force really behind this?

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@xxxxxxxx>]

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace independently came up with
> > the concept of natural selection.
> 
> The cycle of a vulnerability from discovery to publication (or leak) is
> probably around two weeks to one month on average, which is a fairly short
> timeframe. Collissions have happened in the past for more trivial issues,
> but this is not one of them - the vulnerability reported is a fairly
> non-obvious and obscure problem.

Michael,

I was interested to hear you quote this statistic.
Do you have a reference for it that you can point
me to?

Thanks,
-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr@xxxxxxxx]
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