* Kees Cook <k...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:54:51AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> > I suspect another factor may be that paxtest can give inconsistent output 
> > when 
> > doing the ASLR test.
> 
> Actually, in looking at paxtest, it's reporting correctly. I'm not sure what 
> other 
> patches are in the Fedora kernel, but it seems like while Ubuntu's entropy 
> with 
> ascii-armor aslr is bad, Fedora's is even worse.

There used to be some anti-Fedora PR in paxtest circles (which we can ignore), 
but 
where the tool reported numbers i always found it to be accurate (which we 
shouldn't 
ignore).

Thanks,

        Ingo
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