Daevid Vincent wrote:
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From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:32 PM

I thing a good FAQ entry would be how this patch fits in
with Suhosin
and what are the comparable/conflicting concepts, are they
compatible
with each other etc.

http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/a_feature_list.html


Both systems are liable to appeal to the same sort of
people so it makes
 sense to cover this.
What I do not understand is why don't these patches get put instantly
back into the core PHP distribution? So patches against 5.2.3 perhaps
would be in 5.2.4, etc?

IMHO there shouldn't be a hardened PHP project. Their patches should
be put in whenever possible, perhaps during an RCx before a gold build
or something. Any loss of functionality due to them should be a
configuration option to turn on/off but otherwise everyone would
benefit from security, memory leak, and other patches...

- mike

Amen to that... I too don't see why the 'fork' or add on... It should
just be a normal compile time switch, like --with-suhosin or
--with-grasp or something like you do everything else. In fact, I'd
almost be swayed into a --with-out-suhosin and --with-out-grasp options
instead, and make this stuff default so that even newb' installations
would be less susceptible to attack -- they're probably the ones that
need the most security!

That's a completely wrong assumption. PhpBB has had a lot of vulnerabilities in the past, as has php-nuke and other popular packages.

They've been around for years and not written by newbie's as far as I know - but I don't have any link to either package I just mentioned.

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