On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 04:37, Giuseppe Ghib� wrote: Liam Quin wrote: > > Anyone here familiar enough with gcc to comment on StackGuard [1], > > and whether it'd be a good thing to use for system services/daemons > > in Mandrake Linux? It looks like it's not been kept up to date. > > > > [1] http://www.immunix.org/stackguard.html > > The main problem is that they use obsolete compilers, > such as egcs 1.1.2.
Yes, agreed. That's why I sait it looks is if it's not been kept up to date :-) > Maybe this one? > http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/ OK... so, has anyone tried this? :-) Stack protection might be a big plus for Mandrake Linux in a server environment, although you'd have to measure the performance hit to see if it was worth while on a workstation. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ Ankh's list of IRC clients: http://www.valinor.sorcery.net/clients/
