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Security-related innovation in Unix
Jason Miller, 2005-09-28

Recently, a good friend of mine forwarded me an article from kerneltrap.org, which talked about a new heap implementation that's being introduced into an upcoming release of the OpenBSD operating system. This article was of specific interest to me, as I have been experimenting with the creation of a more secure heap implementation myself.

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Security in Unix 2005-09-29
Alexey Vesnin
Unix systems(except Linux) are built with security concern in mind. OpenBSD is great for all the things you need to be rally SECURE. By the way - think about a question, that all the crap-like hardware like cheap all-in-one-but-software-based RAID controllers, WinModems, buggy video cards, IBM odd-flashed adapters - in OpenBSD they're mostly unsupported. Why? Just because they're unstable - and insecure for mission-critical purposes. Dynamic memory management is one of the most vulnerable Windows' susbystems for a years - and it's still unfixed. In other OS'es it depends just on the OS developers' mind. OpenBSD at last started to punch out a buggy code from running system - I hope it will be in another OS'es as soon as possible. Or software developers' laziness in bugfixing will ruin our days.

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David Emery (1 replies)
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Todd Knarr (1 replies)
It is a contraction! 2005-10-05
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