From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@piing.fr>
To: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gmail.com>
Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org,
Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>,
Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@piing.fr>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140226105129.GC4096@sabayon.logifi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140221151654.a7e7fcc99c06062666740892@gmail.com>
The 21/02/14, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> 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.
The algorithms and implementations do not change with configuration
options while they are almost always the cause of security issues of a
software.
Of course, building the same software on different architectures or with
custom configuration options will change the assembler code and the
binary fingerprint might be totally different. But considering this a
layer of protection remains non-sense and is a dangerous approach. The
nature of Gentoo does not help in this area compared to other binary
distributions.
I don't pretend that non-standard binaries NEVER protect against some
kind of issues. I pretend they are ridiculously insignificant in the
wild.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 10:51 UTC|newest]
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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
2014-02-26 10:51 ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
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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