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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2002 22:55:01 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To:        bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sandboxing untrusted binaries
Message-ID:  <20020529.225501.134206046.imp@village.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020530025817.GA4390@no-support.loc>
References:  <20020530025817.GA4390@no-support.loc>

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            Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
: Hello,
: 
: OpenBSD has a new interesting feature: systrace. It is a system call
: policy generator for "sandboxing" untrusted or semi-trusted binaries.
: 
: The whole idea looks interesting. The implementation details look
: relatively simple (read: not too complicated). Anyone interested in
: having a closer look and maybe porting it?
: 
: Or I will try to port it myself if at least one core member says:
: "Interesting technology, send a patch..."
: 
: http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/

The SecureBSD folks did something similar to an old version of
FreeBSD, but had such a restrictive license that no one ever
investigated merging it into the mainline.

Way cool idea.

Warner

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