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On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 19:28 -0500, basile wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> Let me respond to all in one email: |
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> 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: |
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> > THANK YOU for taking the time to post this valuable information! |
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> > Thanks also for sharing your infectious energy with this mailing |
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> > list; it reinforces the importance of keeping hardened Gentoo |
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> > vital!! |
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> Hardened Gentoo is *very* important and I think the team would appreciate |
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> knowing where their work ends up: Besides being the basis of Tin Hat, |
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> it is |
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> also the basis of another project of ours (tor-ramdisk) which uses a |
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> uclibc |
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> (not glibc) based hardened gentoo environment to securely house a tor |
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> relay. |
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> Three of our production servers at D'Youville College are hardened gentoo |
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> (virtual.dyc.edu, moodle.dyc.edu and project.dyc.edu) as are a couple of |
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> internal servers. I use hardened gentoo when I teach my security course |
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> to demonstrate various hardening techniques. |
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> Clearly, we are heavily invested users. Yes, keep hardened Gentoo vital! |
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> Gordon Malm wrote: |
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> > I think Tin Hat is a cool project and they are more than welcome to |
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> keep us |
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> > abreast of new releases, along with some short release notes. In |
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> fact, I am |
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> > glad they do. It is hardly spam. Thanks Tin Hat peeps and keep up |
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> the good |
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> > work! |
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> > Gordon Malm (gengor) |
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> Thanks Gordon. On another note, I am wondering if you and the other |
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> team members |
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> have any thoughts about PaX/Grsecurity possibly being dropped |
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> upstream. I hate |
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> to see harndened gentoo without it, but there may be no choice. |
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We have discussed this topic and our time is better spent on focusing on |
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the now vs worrying about the future. If/when projects start to stagnate |
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we will deal with those cross-roads when they are upon us. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |