Re: [developers-l] Re: [debian-devel] Re: security enhanced debian branch?

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Busser
er started to write a plan for putting Adamantix stuff in Debian. Then we can discuss it and determine what needs to be done by whom. And then start working on it. Groetjes, Peter Busser

Re: Building a distribution from source?

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Busser
ddebian.org. IMHO it was a big win for the project to be renamed from Trusted Debian to Adamantix. > In fact the domain should probably be de-registered to avoid confusion. If anyone appears to be confused here, it seems to be you (again). Groetjes, Peter Busser

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Peter Busser
. You so far gave the impression of a reasonable and balanced > > person but this is as low as it gets. Shame on you. Do you have the detailed specification of exec-shield somewhere? That would make it easier to evaluate the completeness of the test suite. Feel free to submit tests yourself, I&

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
ould be my hero if you succeeded in improving on PaX. But in all honesty, exec-shield does not do that I'm afraid. In fact, there is simply no technical reason whatsoever for exec-shield to exist at all. None. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking high-security Linux out o

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
Hi! > [NB: When reponsding using the web archives, please get the References > and In-Reply-To: correctly. You may also consider setting MFT:] I can't post from the lists.debian.org site. > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote: > >> PaX would take much mor

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
test to see for yourself. So far I have heard a lot of talk and a number of opinions on why PaX is bad. But no proof. I can reasonably proof any of the above. But I have seen no such proof from those who propose exec-shield so far, only opinions and cheap talk. Opinions are like assholes, everyone ha

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
, slow computers suck). I'm sure Herbert Xu knows how to apply it. For those who don't: apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.22 cd kernel-source-2.4.22-2.4.22 bzcat kernel-source-2.4.22+pax.diff.bz2 | patch -p1 Now that can't be too hard, can it? Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamanti