Some of the tests are in the book. They explicity test whether or not
stack smashing protector is working. It's not in the whole system being
secure. It's in the pieces of the puzzle and that's hard to test. You
make sure each piece is secure by the general instructions in the book
and the actual programs you have installed. Then you just have to make
sure each program is configured correctly and works properly. That
should inherently give you a more secure system. Even some pre-compiled
distributions have hardened versions with greater security. I know
Debian does. The difference in HLFS is not that it will be more secure
than the other hardened distros, but that it's highly configurable. It
should be more secure than the average distro.
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