Re: StackGuard'ed Debian?

["kay" <kay@phreedom.org>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:07:46AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
] I don't have the cpu capacity of even building my own system but I would 
] be interested how stable those guarded binaries are.
] We thought about using them at work but decided against it since the
] program is so unknown.
] I would second a proposal of building a "test" distribution on one of
] the public-servers and maybe somewhen (when harddiscs get cheaper :-))
] distribute a stack-guarded distribution or at least guarded network
] daemons (ftp,finger,smtp,http etc)

Well, the people at Immunix say they use it for everyday work in a production
environment. On the web site there are also analysis on the performance impact
- they seem reasonable for the security you gain.

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