On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:32 am, Marco Gerards wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to use some other memory than the stack to > implement trampolines? It's documented quite well:
By modifying GCC and a dynamic linker, it is possible. > Anyways, my primary concerns are making things work and moving > forwards to something that is releasable. Making GRUB work in a way > so it works like everyone wants is secondary and not possible in > practice. Paranoid security is secondary to me, but if we can get it > for free without making a mess of the code, that would be great. Paranoid is called paranoid, because it is a disease. Many people tend to forget that things are always based on a tradeoff. If such an attempt as prohibiting all executable stacks is merely paranoid, we should not care about it. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
