Re: PRNGs (was Re: machine independent protection from stack-smashingattack)

[Andrea Glorioso <sama () AGLORIOSO COM>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:25:23PM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> John Viega wrote:
> Porting to many non-Linux x86 platforms should be trivial:  StackGuard
> depends on:
>
>    * gcc
>    * x86
>    * ELF
>
> so it should work out of the box on *BSD.  I don't have any BSD
> machines, so I don't claim that it works.  However, I have had people
> tell me that they've used it on BSD platforms, but again, I never got
> the code back.

I confirm that StackGuard works on FreeBSD 4.0 and 4.1. I've had some
problem on producing static binaries, but I must admit I was in a hurry
and I didn't thoroughly read the documentation.

Bye,
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Andrea Glorioso         sama(at)aglorioso(dot)com
                        Padua, Italy