Would you care to expand on the methods you will be using for testing. Careful consideration must be given to the methodology employed so that unbiased results are produced. Happy Holidays, Max --- "Knijff, S.A.W. van der" <s.a.w.vanderknijff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm performing an research about the effects of > diversity > on malware. In this research there will be looked at > the > effects of diversity within an operating system on > malware, > in this case different GNU/Linux distro's. > Cause of the limited time schedule there will only > be > tested with three distro's, after this there will be > picked > one distro which is tested on different > architectures. > There is chosen to work with Fedora Core 6, OpenSuse > 10.2 > and Ubuntu 6.10. > Before starting the real-life tests there is a need > to make > some assumptions on what will happen when the > malware is > run on a system. Here for there will be looked at > the > compiler flags that are used during compilation of > the > distribution, I'm namely interested in the compiler > flags > which enhance the security within the distro. > Also are there any kind of security measurements > besides > the compiler flags, for example SELinux, AppArmor, > Address > Randomization Execshield, PIE or others? > I hope that you can provide me with some answers on > my > questions so i can move on with the research. > > Stephan > > -- > Fedora-security-list mailing list > Fedora-security-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-security-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Fedora-security-list mailing list Fedora-security-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-security-list
