Announcing end-of-life of the Stephanie project
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The Stephanie project was aimed at offering security extensions to
features not integrated in OpenBSD that the userbase demanded and/or
could use in various - possibly critical - configurations.

I took it on my own to extend Stephanie with each release and to write
code for it the best I could - which I believe is shown with each new
Stephanie release. The last release, for OpenBSD 3.6, was the one I was
most proud of.

Due to my lack of experience when I first started working on it (for
OpenBSD 3.1) it received bad feedback from the OpenBSD development team -
some was constructive (thanks to art@) but most was just comments about
how "bad" Stephanie is and how it will "crash your system and slow it
down".

In the last release of Stephanie I took it upon myself to address each of
these accusations and wrote code that not only achieves the goals I set
for the project, but also nulls the bad feedback. Needless to say that 
like any code, Stephanie had (and still has) bugs too. Important to
mention is that except for one, they were all found in pro-active audits
of the code.

Unlike claims I recently heard, Stephanie never had a bug that allowed
either remote or local code execution by an attacker.

For various reasons I have decided to stop development of Stephanie.

People who are interested in continuing Stephanie can contact me and I'll
provide all code I have at the moment including some information on what I
had planned (hint: some PaX features), aswell as recent bug fixes that
were not posted on the Stephanie website.

I'd like to thank all the people who helped, throughout the years, with
Stephanie, directly or indirectly: Peter Werner, Rod Cordova, Eli Klein,
Mike Schiffman; super, solar, _eci, shegget, and the rest
of inNUENdo; pipacs (of the Pax team), sd, Hunger; Eran Rundstein; hypno,
tiocsti, entity, veins, and all the people in #OpenBSD on Undernet IRC;
and especially all the Stephanie users, who backed Stephanie, put trust
in it, provided feedback and motivated me in improving the quality of the
project. Thanks!