Academic studies of OpenBSD's features and their practical impact on security are somewhat rare, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the recent paper A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD Operating System, by Jukka Ruohonen, Krzysztof Sierszecki, Abhishek Tiwari (all at University of Southern Denmark).

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Academic studies of OpenBSD's features and their practical impact on security are somewhat rare, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the recent paper A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD Operating System, by Jukka Ruohonen, Krzysztof Sierszecki, Abhishek Tiwari (all at University of Southern Denmark).