Subject: Re: Importing PaX features to NetBSD
To: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/18/2005 10:31:02
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Elad Efrat wrote:
> What I would like to discuss is the possibility of importing two
> important features from PaX -- ASLR and MPROTECT.

Questions that come to mind are:
  * under what license is the code to-be-imported (seeing GPL in the ouput
    of that test), and
  * what is the performance impact when this is enabled?
    I guess some more benchmarks would be useful to establish that.


  - Hubert