Hardening is our business... new monthly report ;-)
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 27 June 2013We're back with another report on the Gentoo Hardened project. Please excuse my brevity, as you've noticed I'm not that active (yet) due to work on an external project - I'll be back mid-July though. I promise.
On the Toolchain side, GCC 4.8.1 is in the tree and has …
Gentoo Hardened spring notes
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 16 May 2013We got back together on the #gentoo-hardened
chat channel to discuss
the progress of Gentoo
Hardened, so it's time for
another write-up of what was said.
Toolchain
GCC 4.8.1 will be out soon, although nothing major has occurred with it since the last meeting. There is a plugin …
Public support channels: irc
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 16 May 2013I've said it before - support channels for free software are often (imo) superior to the commercial support that you might get with vendors. And although those vendors often try to use "modern" techniques, I fail to see why the old, but proven/stable methods would be wrong.
Consider the "Chat …
Another Gentoo Hardened month has passed
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 18 April 2013Another month has passed, so time to mention again what we have all been doing lately ;-)
Toolchain
Version 4.8 of GCC is available in the tree, but currently masked. The package contains a fix needed to build hardened-sources, and a fix for the asan (address sanitizer). asan support in …