> approximately one hundred thousand words

According to the index page, the current release is closer to half of that at 62989 words.

Which is (allegedly, don’t trust the number too much) as long as 2001: A Space Odyssey.

https://www.readinglength.com/book/isbn-0451452739

Not a long book, but in the context of code I wouldn’t consider that easily auditable.

Seems like the wrong question. Rather: if it's easily auditable, who's audited it so far?

What is a "word of code"? I've seen "lines of code" but what's a "word" in C?

Not really, especially when they have:

> TinySSH has its own crypto library

Well, at least it fits into GPT-4 Turbo context. I think we are not far away from a fully automated audit that can at least check for 99% of common bugs and security issues.