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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:54:45 -0500
From:      Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Sergej Schmidt <sergej.schmidt@uni-ulm.de>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Will 11.0-RELEASE include ASLR?
Message-ID:  <20160310135445.GF42303@mutt-hardenedbsd>
In-Reply-To: <201603100523.WAA00750@mail.lariat.net>
References:  <56E02D95.9020303@anongoth.pl> <201603091722.KAA24139@mail.lariat.net> <56E0BEEB.2070901@uni-ulm.de> <201603100523.WAA00750@mail.lariat.net>

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:23:22PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 05:25 PM 3/9/2016, Sergej Schmidt wrote:
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> >In which way ASLR has something to do with security by obscurity?
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> ASLR attempts to create security by obscuring the locations of=20
> objects within the machine's address space. Critics of ASLR say=20
> (with some justification!) that this is just hiding them... in=20
> plain sight. Without getting into a flame war about that, I would=20
> simply like the option of compiling it in or not.

That option has always been available in HardenedBSD's implementation.
It has been a kernel option that you can toggle at compile time with the
PAX_ASLR kernel option. IT can also be toggled via /boot/loader.conf by
setting hardening.pax.aslr.status=3D0.

Thanks,

--=20
Shawn Webb
HardenedBSD

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