Quoting part of an article posted by Robert Vamosi on news.com (see http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9843682-57.html):<br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br><br>11 open-source projects certified as secure<br><br></span>Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects. <div> Eleven projects made the list: <a class="external-link" href="http://www.amanda.org/">Amanda</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ntp.org/">NTP</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://trac.des.no/openpam">OpenPAM</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://openvpn.net/">OpenVPN</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://overdose.sourceforge.net/">Overdose</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.php.net/">PHP</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.postfix.org/">Postfix</a>, <a
class="external-link" href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://us3.samba.org/samba/">Samba</a>, and <a class="external-link" href="http://www.tcl.tk/">TCL</a>. </div><div> San Francisco-based <a class="external-link" href="http://www.coverity.com/">Coverity</a>, working in collaboration with Stanford University and under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, is analyzing source code to certify that open-source projects written in C, C++, and Java are secure. Coverity has not disclosed the amount of the DHS contract. </div><br><p>
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