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Debian Hardened Aims For Security

Posted by timothy on from the it's-certainly-safe-from-me dept.

larryg writes "Debian Hardened is a new project that wants be an official Debian sub-project. It aims to provide a complete tree of hardened kernel and software packages for a standard Debian distribution, without changing to another like Adamantix and making easy the hardening of any machine running Debian GNU/Linux. The hardened kernels use the grSecurity patch and some of the Adamantix kernel patches; also, its packages are compiled with the ProPolice/SSP gcc extension and some libraries to prevent and trace buffer overflow attacks. Also, and as a second project, we are working on some enhacements against the Linux Entropy Pool engine, using an external TRNG (True Random Numbers Generator) device which uses thermal noise and also the atomic decay from a Geiger counter, making true unpredictable random numbers."

7 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cant wait to use it with my Lexar JumpDrive loaded with security sofware against hackers.

  2. Debian could use that as a spam headline! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hard3n y0ur Debian/w0ody t0day!

  3. New pickup line for geeks... by vettemph · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wanna mount my hardened woody?

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    1. Re:New pickup line for geeks... by vettemph · · Score: 5, Funny

      ....Hardened Woody set for release!

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      The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
  4. Re:Hardened Gentoo by big+tex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok, how about this go to http://debianhardened.sourceforge.net/ and read all the documentation they have (hint, there isn't any),

    OK, that's what we call 'security through obscurity'. See no evil, hear no evil, all that.

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  5. as *if*! by Llewyn · · Score: 5, Funny
    i suppose 'Debian Hardened' is not referring to the installation process... yegods! it was hard enough already!


    but seriously... as a debian user, i fully condone harder, faster, and stronger debians.

  6. Re:harden what?? by 808140 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Security is like an erection: it can always be harder and longer lasting. That doesn't necessarily imply impotence (unless it comes from the aptly named Microsoft, haha).