From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 15:55:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21230 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21209 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:55:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-141.camalott.com [208.229.74.141]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20982; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:56:01 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA06402; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:54:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:54:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809022254.RAA06402@detlev.UUCP> To: tlambert@primenet.com CC: jdp@polstra.com, bde@zeta.org.au, reilly@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199809020715.AAA22302@usr02.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:15:51 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: ELF binaries size From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199809020715.AAA22302@usr02.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Also, how does it enhance security to prevent a program from reading >> its own text segment? If a program doesn't want to read its text >> segment then it should simply ... not read it. :-) > Good reason to not use an Intel processor... > Consider the case of a program of permission --x--x--x... > This "security through obscurity" is bogus, in any case. But then how do you use static strings? Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message