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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."

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  1. aasdfg ds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  2. frist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frost pist?

  3. Debian meets OpenBSD, who hasn't dreamt of it ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah...

  4. Re:A few GMail invites, you know what to do! by NeoSkandranon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, Fuck you i started at the bottom ;p

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  5. i use random generated numbers for my public keys. by peculiarmethod · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2 49f2 3490fg ji3 09 34jif903 e334fjf093w jfg3903rh, ghnvn349) 29324r098)

    j3r5g

    ouch. burned my finger on the bic lighter while opening the smoke detector.

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  6. Re:A few GMail invites, you know what to do! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. WOW, that's offtopic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anything else you want to bring up that has nothing to do with the story, or the parent post?

    1. Re:WOW, that's offtopic. by gl4ss · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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      WOW, that's offtopic. (Score:-1, Offtopic)
      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 14, @08:20PM (#10251578)
      Anything else you want to bring up that has nothing to do with the story, or the parent post?
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  9. Re:Adamantix? by XanC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Adamantium

  10. Penis Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm working on a distro called PenisLinux. My mascot is Tux with a 10" schlong.

    Later on I think I'll do a Hardened Penis Linux.