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Security
Bruce Mitchener edited this page Jul 4, 2013
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There are a few things that we should evaluate within the compiler and runtime to improve security.
This is easy, but when we generate assembler, we need to specify a special bit of code to enable non-executable stacks. This is important for the HARP backend. This can be done via a linker flag or a bit of assembler.
There is a good write up of this provided by Gentoo Linux.
This has been addressed for the 2013.1 release.
A recent source of attacks on systems has been to exploit weaknesses in hashing algorithms. We need to take a good look at this.