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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:44:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0
Message-ID:  <20071228004249.C43798@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <86myrvhht9.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <477277FF.30504@googlemail.com> <86myrvhht9.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> writes:
>> I've known about ProPolice/SSP for a while now (from the Gentoo world) a=
nd=20
>> am aware that FreeBSD 7.0 doesn't yet support it though I know of Jeremy=
 Le=20
>> Hen's patches (http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/FreeBSD/SSP/).
>
> Wrong.  FreeBSD 7 has had SSP support since May; the patch you mention ju=
st=20
> turns it on by default.  You can probably achieve the same effect by addi=
ng=20
> -fstack-protector to CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS in make.conf.

I'd very much like us to think about turning it on by default -- while stac=
k=20
protection is necessarily imperfect, it is increasingly considered a standa=
rd=20
compiler feature to have enabled on operating systems.  In fact, I know of=
=20
relatively few that don't enable it by default...

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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