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

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
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
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: 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: 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: [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