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Date:      Wed, 09 Mar 2016 22:23:22 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Sergej Schmidt <sergej.schmidt@uni-ulm.de>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Will 11.0-RELEASE include ASLR?
Message-ID:  <201603100523.WAA00750@mail.lariat.net>
In-Reply-To: <56E0BEEB.2070901@uni-ulm.de>
References:  <56E02D95.9020303@anongoth.pl> <201603091722.KAA24139@mail.lariat.net> <56E0BEEB.2070901@uni-ulm.de>

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At 05:25 PM 3/9/2016, Sergej Schmidt wrote:

>In which way ASLR has something to do with security by obscurity?

ASLR attempts to create security by obscuring the locations of 
objects within the machine's address space. Critics of ASLR say 
(with some justification!) that this is just hiding them... in 
plain sight. Without getting into a flame war about that, I would 
simply like the option of compiling it in or not.

--Brett Glass




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