From: Avery Buffington (avery.buffingtonfxfn.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 17:31:49 CDT

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no, he ment W^X ("W xor X") but I'm not about to go into a comparison of the two or their pros and cons.

second bullet of http://www.openbsd.org/33.html#new will explain W^X but http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2003-04/1678.html will make you chuckle

-----Original Message-----
From: noir [mailto:noirgsu.linux.org.tr]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:01 PM
To: bugtraqsecurityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow prevention

I believe that Mr. Raadt meant PAX by W^X.
We all enjoy ascii art but I wanted to note that renaming somebody
elses work is not so ethical.

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