From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>,
Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@piing.fr>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:16:54 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140221151654.a7e7fcc99c06062666740892@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140220204103.GA3381@vidovic.ultras.lan>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:41:03 +0100 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:52:07PM +0400, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>
> > And this point is one of the highest security benefits in real world:
> > one have non-standard binaries, not available in the wild. Most
> > exploits will fail on such binaries even if vulnerability is still
> > there.
>
> While excluding few security issues by compiling less code is possible,
> believing that "non-standard binaries" (in the sense of "compiled for
> with local compilation flags") gives more security is a dangerous dream.
Any decent security setup contains multiple layers of protection.
Use of non-standard binaries, algorithms or implementations is just
one of them and it is the simplest math to prove that security is
_improved_ this way. Nobody says that system became _acceptably_
secure _only_ by using this techniques.
Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko
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2014-02-19 23:40 ` [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment? Franklin Wang
2014-02-20 0:14 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2014-02-20 0:36 ` Franklin Wang
2014-02-20 0:53 ` Facundo Curti
2014-02-20 1:06 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2014-02-20 1:17 ` Franklin Wang
2014-02-20 9:28 ` thegeezer
2014-02-20 12:04 ` Tanstaafl
2014-02-20 12:24 ` Tanstaafl
2014-02-21 1:03 ` Facundo Curti
2014-02-21 1:39 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2014-02-21 13:49 ` Tanstaafl
2014-02-27 13:09 ` Nick Cameo
2014-02-27 17:53 ` Facundo Curti
2014-03-21 13:37 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-02-20 10:29 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How " Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-02-20 16:52 ` Andrew Savchenko
2014-02-20 20:41 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-02-20 20:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-21 12:39 ` Andrew Savchenko
2014-02-26 11:44 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-02-21 14:15 ` hasufell
2014-02-22 8:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-26 15:02 ` hasufell
2014-02-26 10:55 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-02-26 14:05 ` Poison BL.
2014-02-26 15:03 ` hasufell
2014-02-26 15:26 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-02-27 1:05 ` hasufell
2014-02-21 11:16 ` Andrew Savchenko [this message]
2014-02-26 10:51 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2014-02-20 14:35 ` [gentoo-user] Fwd: How " Andrew Savchenko
2014-02-21 7:35 ` Franklin Wang
2014-02-20 18:41 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-02-21 7:40 ` Franklin Wang
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