Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Robert Sharp <selinux@×××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening a Kernel post hardened-sources
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:38:01
Message-Id: 3ec18d8c-26bc-5da1-1c5c-a1c29a2abd04@sharp.homelinux.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening a Kernel post hardened-sources by Guillaume Ceccarelli
1 I requested a quote from GRsecurity and they told me that although they
2 are looking at providing a package for personal customers they don't
3 have one at the moment. They recommended minipli as the next best thing...
4
5 What about the grsecurity-source overlay?
6
7 On 29/03/18 11:47, Guillaume Ceccarelli wrote:
8 > Hi all,
9 >
10 > I’ve been a grsecurity customer for a little over two years now, and
11 > my use of it is as a small business, on Gentoo server installations.
12 > While I can’t disclose the amount of money I’m paying publicly because
13 > every deal is customized, I would encourage you to get in touch using
14 > the contact form on grsecurity.net <http://grsecurity.net/> and ask
15 > for a quote if you haven’t already.
16 >
17 > You might just end up with an arrangement you can afford, and grsec is
18 > still certainly worth having today. Not only for the feature set, but
19 > also for the constant looking over the mainline Linux kernel code,
20 > including fixing and backporting more fixes than the regular kernel
21 > stable releases, and for knowledge / emails giving context to
22 > important kernel vulnerabilities when they occur.
23 >
24 >
25 > Best,
26 >
27 > – Guillaume Ceccarelli
28 >
29 > On 28 Mar 2018, at 20:22, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com
30 > <mailto:r030t1@×××××.com>> wrote:
31 >
32 >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Alex Efros <powerman@××××××××.name
33 >> <mailto:powerman@××××××××.name>> wrote:
34 >>> Hi!
35 >>>
36 >>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:06:00PM +0100, Robert Sharp wrote:
37 >>>> Does anyone know of a good, post GRSecurity guide to reasonable
38 >>>> security
39 >>>> for the kernel? In the absence of anything else I will have to go back
40 >>>> to the KSPP list and start removing stuff until I can get a stable
41 >>>> kernel.
42 >>>
43 >>> I'm using https://github.com/minipli/linux-unofficial_grsec, but it
44 >>> lacks
45 >>> Spectre and Meltdown mitigation at the moment (see issues). Still, I
46 >>> believe it's the best we can have now (better is probably paid
47 >>> GrSec, but
48 >>> AFAIK it's impossible or too costly to buy it for home or small
49 >>> business).
50 >>>
51 >>
52 >> Previous contributors have access to the code, but it doesn't seem
53 >> like there is any way to go that route anymore.
54 >>

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening a Kernel post hardened-sources Guillaume Ceccarelli <guillaume@××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening a Kernel post hardened-sources R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>