On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:23:22PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:25 PM 3/9/2016, Sergej Schmidt wrote: > > >In which way ASLR has something to do with security by obscurity? > > ASLR attempts to create security by obscuring the locations of > objects within the machine's address space. Critics of ASLR say > (with some justification!) that this is just hiding them... in > plain sight. Without getting into a flame war about that, I would > simply like the option of compiling it in or not.
That option has always been available in HardenedBSD's implementation. It has been a kernel option that you can toggle at compile time with the PAX_ASLR kernel option. IT can also be toggled via /boot/loader.conf by setting hardening.pax.aslr.status=0. Thanks, -- Shawn Webb HardenedBSD GPG Key ID: 0x6A84658F52456EEE GPG Key Fingerprint: 2ABA B6BD EF6A F486 BE89 3D9E 6A84 658F 5245 6EEE
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