Re: [gentoo-hardened] Don't kill hardened yet - Porting the patch forward is complete

[Parker Schmitt]

Have we thought about paying spender to give us patches? We could agree to
a license that requires it to be on Gentoo....just a thought

On Aug 23, 2017 11:20 AM, <bob@××××××××.com> wrote:

> After re-reading the official announcement, rather than the one I saw on a
> tech news website, it appears only hardened-sources are being pulled rather
> than the whole project. That is good news. For a moment I thought all the
> PaX files were being removed, which would be a major blow to security for
> those who need it.
>
> Per announcement:
>
>> Also, all PaX related packages, except
>>
> sys-kernel/hardened-sources, will remain available for the time being.
> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2017-08-19-hardene
> d-sources-removal.html
>
> I guess I can live with an overlay for now, although
> unofficial-hardened-sources would make a nice addition to the entire
> project, they are very stable for me. Thank you again and keep up the good
> work.
>
> On 2017-08-23 10:10, bob@××××××××.com wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>> I just heard that gentoo-hardened will be scrapped by end-of-month.
>> Well, I have some good news - it doesn't have to be. A project has
>> risen up to continue supporting the patch on future kernels and I have
>> been running it successfully for over a month with the stock hardened
>> profile.
>>
>> You can download the patches here, they are also GPG signed:
>> https://github.com/minipli/linux-unofficial_grsec/releases
>>
>> So-called "linux-hardened project (KSPP)" and "SELinux" do not even
>> slightly compare at their current stage of development in terms of
>> kernel hardening and PaX protection. In the mid-term, I would
>> recommend using these forward patches for hardened-LTS 4.9.x and hope
>> Gentoo-hardened will continue for awhile longer while we wait for
>> further improvements.
>>
>> Thank you for your time and concern.
>>
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