Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Marco Matthies <marco-ml@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:43:23
Message-Id: 434553F0.9070708@gmx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security by "Olivier Crête"
1 Olivier Crête wrote:
2
3 > What you want is Gentoo Hardened [1]. They maintain a toolchain (gcc,
4 > etc) with the security oriented stuff. And also a security oriented
5 > kernel (hardened-sources) that includes stuff like address space
6 > randomization, stronger chroot, etc ..
7 >
8 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/
9
10 Thanks, I'll go check it out. As a general thought, are there plans to
11 fold some of the things introduced in hardened back into the main
12 profiles or is the plan to wait till those things have been included in
13 the standard toolchain, kernel, etc.?
14
15 Thanks,
16 Marco
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