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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:13:27 +1000 (EST)
From:      Nicholas Brawn <ncb@zip.com.au>
To:        "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposed secure-level 4 patch
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906201710460.17277-100000@zipper.zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906192235070.70357-100000@smarter.than.nu>

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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Brian W. Buchanan wrote:

> Anyway, this all boils down to a matter of choice.  If you value being
> able to restart daemons without rebooting, then don't use this level of
> protection.

Here's an idea i'll toss into the ring. What about runtime integrity
checks. If there were some way of guaranteeing that a program being
executed has the correct checksum prior to processing execve()?

I'm not advocating this line of approach, but it may be one option to
consider. 

Nick



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