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Corbin Bird <corbinbird <at> charter.net> writes: |
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> >> Ideally, there would be a gentoo-based hardened router for sale |
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> Take a spare desktop system, strip / rebuild / reconfigure it as a |
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> single purpose system. |
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> Lots of card slots and memory are very good to have for this system. |
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> It works, but can be a pain space and time wise. ( Firewall / DHCP |
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> Server / Router ). |
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> I have done this twice for relatives. |
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Hmmmm. I was thinking the full hardened protocol:: |
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grsecurity:: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Grsecurity2_Quickstart |
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(there is acutally quite todo on this effort). |
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ssp, vpn-encryption engine, etc etc. |
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> http://www.ipcop.org/ |
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Although security conscience, I see no evidence/detail as to how |
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this firewall ipcop distro is hardened; that why ideally, I'd like |
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it to be based on gentoo. Furthermore, infrequent releases does |
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not suggest they are on top of all security isses, ymmv. The closest I've |
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found is (2) workstations offerings by blueness:: tin-hat and lilblue. |
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And those are not tuned to be 'routers' but could be, with |
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hardened expertise at the keyboard. As you add codes to a hardened |
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system, things can become challenging..... hence the desire for |
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a gentoo-hardened-router vendor, or guide. |
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James |
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