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Tight Security And apt-get: Trusted Debian Project

Posted by timothy on from the swirling-padlocks dept.

kcurrie writes "There is now a Trusted Debian project available. This release installs over a stock woody installation, and includes PaX (non-executable data section kernel patch), IBM stack smashing protector patch for GCC and a ton of recompiled programs (BIND, Apache, Postfix and OpenSSH included) that take advantage of this. Running 2.4.20, it also includes the latest Snort and FreeS/WAN support.
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  1. Moo by Chacham · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting, though I'll wait until I can apt-get it.

    I'm still shaking from the horrors of using Ximian as a deb source.

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  2. Uhm... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 1

    Judging from the number of messages posted under this subject, I suspect there won't be enough interest to keep the project going.

    :-P

  3. Status of stack-smashing protection patch? by brianjcain · · Score: 1

    Why haven't gcc accepted the stack-smashing patch yet? Does it generate unstable code? Sounds like a cool compile flag, if you ask me.

  4. I don't have the need.... by pr0c · · Score: 1

    I of course don't have the need for such security. I think running debian is good enough :P

    Places that need the extra security such as the US government are running freaking windows!!

  5. but... by BortQ · · Score: 1

    I always trusted Debian.

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