Security certification for open source projects
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Under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, open-source projects are being certified for security.
San Francisco-based Coverity, 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, which creates automated source-code analysis tools announced its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
