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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:51:32PM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:44:48PM +0200 or thereabouts, Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: |
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> > Everybody is talking about wolk-kernels and their security... They seem to |
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> > be better than for example the vanilla-sources or gentoo-sources. But what |
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> > is exactly the difference? What does wolk-sources have which others don't |
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> > have and why are they that secure and reliable? |
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> First off, I warn you you're going to get quite a lengthy response from a |
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> certain Brit I know... |
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> That said, from a security perspective, the *primary* benefit of WOLK over |
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> vanilla is the inclusion of grsecurity. Other changes to WOLK primarily |
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> deal with performance and stability. I'll let Kerframil talk about that. |
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> If you just want the extra security features of WOLK, you can achieve the |
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> same thing by patching vanilla-sources with the grsec patches[1]. |
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But aren't these patches already in gentoo-sources? |
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-j |
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