Re: [gentoo-hardened] Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.

2011-02-27 Thread Tóth Attila
2011.Február 27.(V) 17:33 időpontban Ed W ezt írta: > On 27/02/2011 08:20, klondike wrote: >> 2011/2/27 Ed W: >>> On 26/02/2011 18:01, Magnus Granberg wrote: If you have read the last meeting we will be removing the pic use flag as default on in the hardened amd64 profile. We will st

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.

2011-02-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 16:33 +, Ed W wrote: > I think what you are saying is that using PIC requires some special > handling (but that work seems largely done now?). However, does > removing PIC leave the AMD64 architecture "less secure" in some way? Or > is some other procedure now replaci

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.

2011-02-27 Thread Ed W
On 27/02/2011 08:20, klondike wrote: 2011/2/27 Ed W: On 26/02/2011 18:01, Magnus Granberg wrote: If you have read the last meeting we will be removing the pic use flag as default on in the hardened amd64 profile. We will start with the changes when the new structure to the profiles have settled

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.

2011-02-27 Thread klondike
2011/2/27 Ed W : > On 26/02/2011 18:01, Magnus Granberg wrote: >> >> If you have read the last meeting we will be removing the pic use flag as >> default on in the hardened amd64 profile. We will start with the changes >> when >> the new structure to the profiles have settled down. > > Hi, any chan

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.

2011-02-27 Thread Ed W
On 26/02/2011 18:01, Magnus Granberg wrote: If you have read the last meeting we will be removing the pic use flag as default on in the hardened amd64 profile. We will start with the changes when the new structure to the profiles have settled down. Hi, any chance of a bit of background on this

[gentoo-hardened] Remove the pic use flag in the hardened amd64 profile.

2011-02-26 Thread Magnus Granberg
Hi If you have read the last meeting we will be removing the pic use flag as default on in the hardened amd64 profile. We will start with the changes when the new structure to the profiles have settled down. The tracker bug for this is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348050 We will start