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Re: Introducing security hardening features for Lenny



On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:48:57PM +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:16:33AM +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > I finally got some time to run some benchmarks.  I checked the results[1]
> > > into the "hardening" svn tree, in case other people want to contribute
> > > more stuff.
> > 
> >   Thank you very much for those. Though what did you built using -fPIE
> > FORTIFY_SOURCES and so on ? only the tested applications ? or their
> > build-deps as well ? Because I don't expect mplayer to be slowed a lot
> > if you don't rebuild its ogg/mp3/mpg/... as well :) Same goes for
> > inkscape.
> 
> Well, libraries are already -fPIC so there's no need to recompile those.
> As for FORTIFY_SOURCE, that's true, I didn't rebuild the libraries with
> it for these tests.  Getting all libs rebuilt may take a lot longer.  :)

  Well then sadly it makes the benchmarks a lot less interesting :/

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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