On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:03:01PM +0100, Knijff, S.A.W. van der 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.

You could try using Google. http://www.google.de/search?q=opensuse+pax+execshield&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 First hit is: http://en.opensuse.org/Security_Features which answers lots of your questions. If this leaves open questions feel free to ask further :) Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org