Hi, I've never contacted to this list mainly because i didn't have time to do it properly, so, i'm doing it now ;-) First i want to ask for the inclusion of an updated revision of the Stack Smashing Protector/ProPolice that would be more stable than the current one.[1] Second, i would ask for inclusion of the Position Independent Executables (PIE) patch that will make us able to use, for example, the PaX ASLR features.[1] It's overload is minimal AFAIK, most in amd64 and also on i386 it has non-heavy user-side effects, i mean, it's overload does not make it unreliable when thinking in the advantages that it gives to us. As a third (possible) patch, the one that makes GCC able to use an user-provided specs file, which its location is read from an environment variable (useful for wrappers [2]). These patches are already available on the Hardened Debian repositories, and also tested in different scenarios (in addition, also running on production environments without losing performance). I would be happy hearing back from you and how do you think that this should be handled. [1]:http://cvs.debian-hardened.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/debian-hardened/system-dh/x86/sarge/devel/gcc/3.3.4-6/ [2]: hardened-gcc is a wrapper that sets transparently some variables in order to know which implementations of SSP [3], if there's PIE or ET_DYN and son, and compile (transparently) the binaries without using non-existant flags or simply for using it on systems that have different implementations or structures (also on archs that haven't available some of the hardened debian GCC features).It's not finished by now, but you can reach it on http://cvs.debian-hardened.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/debian-hardened/hardened-dev-utils/. [3]: http://wiki.debian-hardened.org/SSP/ProPolice_Implementations Cheers, -- Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro <lorenzo@gnu.org> Hardened Debian head/chief developer - http://www.debian-hardened.org
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