Debian Hardened Aims For Security

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 14, 2004 @12:03PM 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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Why the fuss? by iamatlas · 2004-09-14 12:11 · Score: -1, Redundant

Debian Hardened Aims For Security
Why so much worrying over Aol Instant Messaging Systems? I though we were an open source crowd, Jabber and all that.
1. Re:Why the fuss? by merlin_jim · 2004-09-14 12:17 · Score: -1, Redundant
  
  Debian Hardened Aims For Security
  Why so much worrying over Aol Instant Messaging Systems? I though we were an open source crowd, Jabber and all that.
  
  Oh dear lord, where is the (-1, Unfunny) moderation at?
  
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  I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
2. Re:Why the fuss? by iamatlas · 2004-09-14 12:19 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  I know, cheap joke, if it can even be called "joke", but it was already modded redundant which I just don't understand. But, as you point out wishing for an unfunny mod, there are flaws in the system.....