Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by RahulSundaram: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Security?action=diff&rev2=39&rev1=38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <h2>Security</h2>}}} This section highlights various security items from Fedora. + + === Security Enhancements In Fedora 8 === + + * Fedora continues to improve it's many proactive [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features security features] and FORTIFY_SOURCE has now been [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-September/msg00015.html enhanced] to cover C++ in addition to C which prevents many security exploits. + + * A brand new graphical firewall configuration tool, ''system-config-firewall'', replaces ''system-config-securitylevel''. + + * [http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/13376.html Kiosk] functionality via SELinux among many new enhancements and security policy changes. + + * Glibc in Fedora 8 has now [http://people.redhat.com/drepper/sha-crypt.html support] for passwords using SHA256 and SHA512 hashing. Before only DES and MD5 were available. The tools to create passwords are not yet extended but if such passwords are created in others ways Glibc will recognize that and work with it. + + * Secure remote management capability is now provided for Xen, KVM, and QEMU in Fedora 8 [http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2007/08/fedora-8-virtualization-work-in virtualization]. === General Information === -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
