On Dec 5, 2007 2:06 PM, Jaap Struyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After spending almost a month trying to build a secure 64bit system I > begin to wonder why, will it be more secure than a 32bit system? > (will it be less vulrable to buffer overflows due to the larger buffers???)
After reading papers on pax i just realized that 64 bit has potentially higher security than 32 bit. address space layout randomization is much better since there are more bits to randomize. it supports nx and has better PIC support. you dont see much benefit with less than 2 gb ram though. the higher overhead of 64 bit pointers is significant. but i am more than happy to buy more memory. 4gb nowadays cost as much as 1gb a few months ago. -- Lay low and nourish in obscurity -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
