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Subject: machine independent protection from stack-smashing attack
From: Hiroaki Etoh (ETOHJP.IBM.COM)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 04:59:49 CDT

I have been investigating a machine-independent change to GCC that
would generate code to protect applications from stack-smashing attacks.
The main characteristics are low performance overhead of the protection
code, protecting against different varieties of stack-smashing attacks,
and supporting various processors. A research report is ready on
the web (http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/projects/security/propolice).

I would like some feedback whether it is worth pursuing getting it
assigned to the FSF for inclusion in GCC. 

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Hiroaki Etoh,  Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan