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Re: SSP for Debian unstable. was Re: security enhanced debian branch?



On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 02:28, Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> wrote:
>   OK after the positive comments yesterday I've made an SSP compiled
>  version of GCC for unstable available.

I've just started testing this.  The first thing I noticed is that every SSP 
program you compiled wants to read /dev/urandom.  Is this the only way to 
compile such programs?  Can SSP provide benefits even when /dev/urandom is 
unavailable?

Currently the SE Linux policy prevents most domains from accessing
/dev/*random ...

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