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Re: http://www.smashguard.org
From: Pavel Machek <pavel () ucw cz>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:55:07 +0200
Hi!
The idea is not to create "custom CPUs" but to have our modification picked up by major vendors. Clearly there is interest in applying hardware to solve security issues based on the latest press releases from AMD that AMD chips include buffer-overflow protection (see Computer World, January 15, 2004).As Theo said, the AMD buffer overflow "protection" is nothing more than sensible separation of R and X bits per page, fixing a glaring and
Actually it is not "sensible", and it is not separation. You can have r--, r-x, but you can't have --x. Pavel -- 934a471f20d6580d5aad759bf0d97ddc
Current thread:
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Pavel Machek (Apr 30)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Crispin Cowan (Apr 30)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Pavel Machek (Apr 30)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Nicholas Weaver (May 01)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Theo de Raadt (May 01)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Pavel Machek (Apr 30)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Coleman Kane (May 01)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Theo de Raadt (May 01)
- Re: http://www.smashguard.org Crispin Cowan (Apr 30)