bugtraq - Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:32:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: Richard Rager <kb8rln@...guinmaster.com>
To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@...yp.to>
Subject: Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice


On 4 Jul 2003, D. J. Bernstein wrote:

> Richard M. Smith writes:
> 
> P.S. It's hard for a portable chroot tool to cut off a program's network
> access. Kernel designers should provide a disablenetwork() syscall, with
> the disabling inherited by children. Other kernel changes would be nice,
> but disablenetwork() is the only critical change.
> 
  Look at selinux.  You can drop any privleges under selinux or Bull Dog 
or you can uses Linux Socket Filtering is user space with kernel 2.4.18+
-- 

Enjoy,

Richard Rager