Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:55:09 -0500 (CDT) From: "Thomas H. Ptacek" <tqbf@enteract.com> To: dholland@eecs.harvard.edu (David Holland) Cc: tqbf@enteract.com, grr@shandakor.tharsis.com, adam@homeport.org, robert@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Security Model/Target for FreeBSD or 4.4? Message-ID: <199707190555.AAA00747@enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <199707182323.TAA05583@burgundy.eecs.harvard.edu> from "David Holland" at Jul 18, 97 07:23:50 pm
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> out very carefully - it's very easy to end up with huge additional > complexity with no increment in security. You're right. In many environments, there may not be a significant gain in security; however, in some environments, there may be something to be gained, and, in this case, the added complexity is minimal. I look forward to Mr. de Raadt sharing his concept for arbitrary restrictions on privileged port access without kernel modifications. ---------------- Thomas Ptacek at EnterAct, L.L.C., Chicago, IL [tqbf@enteract.com] ---------------- "If you're so special, why aren't you dead?"
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