The State of Kernel Self Protection Project by Kees Cook, Google
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the authoritative overview of kernel hardening goals and priorities, including Cook's car-safety analogy for kernel security.
What it is
Kees Cook of Google gives a Linux Foundation talk on the Kernel Self Protection Project, which aims to harden Linux against attackers. He surveys threats, the state of available defensive technologies and a year of community progress.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2016 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Recommends lclarkmichalek · 2017-05 · on “HardenedLinux: The way to the Ark”
> But… till now they’ve hardly accomplished anything compared to what PaX/Grsecurity did, e.g. they ported some mitigations while introducing more (exploitable?) bugs or incomplete implementations That doesn't seem particularly charitable. Regardless of what you think of the Linux Foundation's marketing arm, the KSPP is not a bad thing. They seem to have a very different priority to PaX/Grsecurity, with an emphasis on things that have a clear technical/political/etc path to being enabled by default. I really enjoyed this talk about KSPP's agenda: [this video]
Cites tux1968 · 2016-09 · on “Security things in Linux v4.3”
He gave two talks, the one he referenced in the article, "The State of Kernel Self Protection Project", is here: [this video] All the available videos from the Linux Security Summit are listed here: [LINK]
Cites tux1968 · 2016-09 · on “Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink”
Here is Kees Cook talk from the Linux Security Summit, "The State of Kernel Self Protection Project", he makes the same analogy to car safety in his talk: [this video] All the available videos from the Linux Security Summit are listed here: [LINK]