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To: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Subject: Re: Will 11.0-RELEASE include ASLR?
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ASLR is controversial. Some see it as "security by obscurity;" others see
it as extremely useful and effective.

Yes, I would like it as a kernel build option, so that I can choose to
optimize for raw speed (e.g. on a server which is hardened in other ways)
or for the extra warm fuzzies that ASLR provides.

--Brett Glass

At 07:05 AM 3/9/2016, Piotr Kubaj wrote:

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>Shawn Webb has recently announced that ASLR is complete on HardenedBSD.
>There are patches ready for FreeBSD to use and it's ready to be shipped
>in FreeBSD. However, for some reason FreeBSD developers do not want to
>ship ASLR in FreeBSD. Why can't it be included at least as non-default
>src.conf option and marked as experimental?
>
>FreeBSD is the only OS that matters that doesn't have ASLR.