Gentoo Hardened

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Title
Gentoo Hardened
Description
An introduction to the hardened toolchain used at the Hardened Gentoo project, which, combined with the PaX kernel, strong DAC/MAC control mechanisms and a thorough low-entry oriented user documentation provides "full scale" protection for a wide range from home users to enterprise businesses.about this event: http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/123.en.html
content
Compiler changes:

Position Independent Executables/Position Independent Code
affected hardware (x86, AMD64, Sparc, HPPA)
binutils and glibc modifications:

PT_PAX support for the ELF header (plus introduction to ELF header specification)
introduction of the _guardsetup and __guard functions to glibc
improvements of entropy generation for _guardsetup using other mechanisms
future outlook: separated libssp.so and smooth migration out of glibc
kernel patches:

PaX and grsecurity, LIDS, selinux and RSBAC
Date Issued
28 December 2004
Beteiligte Person
Pappy
Is Referenced By
21C3 Website Screenshot21C3 Website
Extent
0:52:09
Type
video/mp4
Tag
21c3
Hacking
Identifier
ark:/45490/bkbSYR