From: | basile <basile@××××××××××××××.edu> |
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To: | tinhat@××××××××××××××.edu, gentoo-hardened@l.g.o |
Subject: | [gentoo-hardened] Tin Hat 20090727 is out |
Date: | Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:05:48 |
Message-Id: | 4A6DC242.80306@opensource.dyc.edu |
1 | Hello everyone, |
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3 | I'd like to announce that a new release of Tin Hat is out. Tin Hat is a fully featured Linux desktop based on Hardened Gentoo which runs purely in RAM. It aims to be very secure, stable, and fast. |
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5 | This release continues the work of hardening the system libraries and binaries begun in the previous release with little changes to the kernel. The toolchain, composed of binutils-2-18, glibc-2.9 and gcc-4.3.3, was used to compile the system from scratch with the following hardening: 1) -fstack-protector-all for everything excpet glibc and evolution where just -fstack-protect is required, 2) -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, 3) PIC/PIE, 4) -Wl,-z,now,-z,relro except for evolution which requires -z,lazy. These features were applied via CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS in the make.conf file in anticipation of migrating them to gcc's specs. We also sync-ed upstream with Gentoo, updating approximately 90 packages. |
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7 | Home page: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat |
8 | Downloads: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat-downloads |
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11 | Thanks to Zorry for helping me understand many of the issues. |
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13 | -- |
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15 | Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
16 | Chair of Information Technology |
17 | D'Youville College |
18 | Buffalo, NY 14201 |
19 | USA |
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21 | (716) 829-8197 |
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