[openwall-announce] Silence on the Wire; new Owl-current ISO image; Linux 2.4.31-ow1

Hi,

This is a cumulative announcement for three Openwall news items, with
the oldest in fact not being very new.  I did not want to "spam" the
announcements list by exceeding my promised rate of 1-2 postings a month.

I'll start with the book.  I hope owl-users will excuse me for the plug.

Silence on the Wire is Michal Zalewski's first book.  I had the
privilege to serve as the technical reviewer for the book and to write
the foreword for it.  And I've just setup a web page dedicated to the
book:

	http://www.openwall.com/books/silence/

SotW is a gem of a book.  It is truly unique in many aspects, and a must
have for anyone curious to learn of the lesser-known security threats
with modern computing, as well as of the inner workings of computers and
computer networks.  As a reviewer wrote, the book is "thought-provoking",
which was precisely the goal.  Needless to say, I highly recommend that
you order your copy now. 

Now, to the less exciting news.  Yes, there's a new ISO-9660 image of
Owl-current.  The latest one, dated 2005/07/03, is based around Linux
2.4.31-ow1, glibc 2.3.5+, OpenSSL 0.9.7g, Postfix 2.2.4, as well as very
recent coreutils, findutils, and other packages.  Dmitry V. Levin, who
was involved with Owl for years but has joined our core team just
recently, was the one to contribute the most to keeping Owl up to date
this time around, and, as expected, I find the quality of his work to be
exceptionally high.