looking for areas to contribute

[David I Noel]

>On 3/19/16, Littlefield, Tyler
> I'm fluent with C and other languages and want to start contributing
> to BSD. I'm happy to work where ever I can be of use, I love more
> lower level stuff but anything that has me working on code would be
> great. My questions:

Hi Tyler,

While not as glamorous as some of the more lower-level work, there are
a handful of potentially nasty script-related bugs in the base copies
of portsnap, freebsd-update, and pmirror that have been sitting around
for a decade or so now:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188428 (MITM against portsnap)
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188430 (Freeze
against portsnap)
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188429 (MITM against
freebsd-update)
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188434 (Freeze
against freebsd-update)
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188432 (MITM against pmirror)

It's been a long while since anyone's discussed them, and I wasn't
sure how interested in looking into them you might be so I only
grabbed a few links, but some of the relevant threads can be found
across the lists under the subjects "MITM attacks against portsnap and
freebsd-update". I believe there is also some info under "Retiring
portsnap [was MITM attacks against portsnap and freebsd-update]".

The first was cross-posted to several lists and I believe several
independent threads spun off from it as a result. But here are a few
quick ones I could find immediately.

https://marc.info/?t=139714957000008&r=1&w=2
https://marc.info/?t=139718224200001&r=1&w=2

If you're interested and want more information let me know.

Take care,

David Noel