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  Debian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Debian is also known for its package management system, especially APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool, for its strict policies regarding the quality of its packages and releases, and for its open development and testing process.
Debian was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University, who wrote the Debian Manifesto which called for the creation of a Linux distribution to be maintained in an open manner, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.
Debian Developers may resign their positions at any time by orphaning the packages they were responsible for and sending a notice to the developers and the keyring maintainer (so that their upload authorization can be revoked).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Debian   (2156 words)

  
 Hardened Debian - "Improving high security for Debian"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hardened Debian/Debian Hardened is a project that brings to Debian GNU/Linux high security and hardening features, hardened kernels, packages and enhanced toolchain, the DHKP kernel patches and other cryptography and security related enhancements.
The Hardened Glibc[1] is a patched, secured glibc brought to you by the Debian Hardened project, taking the advantages of the already-worked out Glibc by the Gentoo developers, with many additions that make it more secure and also updated to the latest code, without making it unstable.
“Debian” and the Debian Logo are trademarks of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
www.debian-hardened.org   (303 words)

  
 Debian - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Debian, created by the Debian Project, is a widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world.
Debian is also known for its package management system and APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool in particular, its strict policies regarding the quality of its packages and releases, and its open development and testing process.
Debian maintainers discourage the novice users from using the unstable distribution and there is generally little or no support offered officially by Debian for such use(altough most of the support is done via unofficial means, like irc, mail lists, forums, etc.), only by means of the bug tracking system, etc.
www.grohol.com /wiki/Debian   (2524 words)

  
 Debian: Secure by Default   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The red total accounts for the inability of -fomit-frame-pointer to increase the performance of an executable in the prescence of PIC; however, because most of the system is PIC anyway (every shared object, library, and plug-in is PIC), the overhead from PIE is in reality lower (possibly much lower).
"Debian: Secure by Default" is a project to examine various security feauters available to the open source community and bring those which do not cause end user complications to Debian's standard distribution.
Hardened Debian or the Debian maintainers themselves have to work to implement these features.
d-sbd.alioth.debian.org   (850 words)

  
 Debian SbD: Plan of Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
It is important to have interested Debian developers turn their sights to this project and evaluate such packages, so that voices which carry more weight than a random Internet peon who suddenly appeared out of nowhere can confirm the credibility and feasibility of deploying such packages.
The final goal of D:SbD is for the Debian maintainers to embrace the changes proposed by D:SbD and work to enhance Debian so that implementing and maintaining these changes in their build process is a quick and painless process on their end, as well as a completely transparent solution on the user's end.
Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds.
d-sbd.alioth.debian.org /www?page=action   (961 words)

  
 Debian Weekly News - December 9th, 2003
Debian uses the default top-level namespace of the web server for Debian-provided content, which doesn't give admins enough control.
Instead of installing the hardened packages on top of Debian stable he would like to create a concurrent distribution and provide CD images as well.
This issue of Debian Weekly News was edited by Matt Black and Martin 'Joey' Schulze.
www.us.debian.org /News/weekly/2003/49   (729 words)

  
 Linux distribution - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Debian GNU/Linux: Put together by countless volunteers, Debian has the largest selection of packages (over 15000) of any distribution.
Knoppix: A Live CD version of Debian which is instantly usable after booting from the CD and comes with 2GB of software on the single CD.
Xandros is based on Debian and is designed to be compatible with Debian's dpkg package management system.
www.free-definition.com /Distro.html   (2438 words)

  
 Debian Weekly News - September 21st, 2004
Joey Schulze asked about means to update the database of virus and security scanners, spam filters and the like for the upcoming Debian release.
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña explained that SPI is not a CA, but only use certificates for their own use and maybe close projects.
This issue of Debian Weekly News was edited by Andre Lehovich and Martin 'Joey' Schulze.
www.us.debian.org /News/weekly/2004/37   (751 words)

  
 Securing Debian HOWTO - Before the compromise
Debian includes some tools for Intrusion Detection which you might want to setup (if truly paranoid of if your system is really critical).
Snort in Debian is enabled with many security checks which you might want, ; however, you should customize the setup to take into account the particular services you run on your system.
Create a hardened Debian distribution, with proper firewall rules, make an ISO image of it and burn it on CD.
www.linuxsecurity.com /resource_files/host_security/securing-debian-howto/ch6.en.html   (1887 words)

  
 Linux Links - The Linux Portal: Distributions/Secure
Bastille can also assess a system's current state of hardening, granularly reporting on each of the security settings with which it works.
Hardened Debian/Debian Hardened is a project that brings to Debian GNU/Linux high security & hardening features, hardened kernels, packages and enhanced toolchain, the DHKP kernel patches and other cryptography-related enhancements.
SmoothWall includes a hardened subset of the GNU/Linux operating system, so there is no separate OS to install.
www.linuxlinks.com /Distributions/Secure   (1337 words)

  
 Re: Debian Hardened project (question about use of the "Debian" trademark)
Debian Hardened is not a Debian-based distro, i said that it is a >
Yes.The `apt-get install hardened´ was an example of something 100% easy to use :D I agree with you, the packages should be just one branch: main.
I think we can collaborate, and i'm really interested in working together with the people of the debian project, also with the debian security crew (Steve!), so, just tell me, i'm waiting for hear a big "We think it's great to work with it" and also i think my objectives are worthy.
www.webservertalk.com /message398316.html   (1480 words)

  
 Debian Hardened - "Assured,Trustworthy"
Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software.
Debian: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/popfile Gentoo: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-mail;name=popfile Lindows: http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?id=11920 The Lindows page is rather well done.
A binary Debian SID kernel package for 2.6 kernels is also included (though it will probably only work with kernel version 2.6.8-1-386 #1).
www.stargeek.com /item/248434.html   (1311 words)

  
 LWN: Debian Weekly News
Not only Debian servers were the target of attackers but also one of [1]Gentoo's servers as was the Free Software Foundation's [2]Savannah system.
Joey Hess [16]added that the canonical attack would be to re-insert a Debian package with a known security hole but a valid signature.
This mostly means compiling things with a stackguard compiler, using format guard, and enforcing policies, etc. Instead of installing the hardened packages on top of Debian stable he would like to create a concurrent distribution and provide CD images as well.
lwn.net /Articles/62342   (801 words)

  
 Diary for jfs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The enabler of these crossreference mapping is really the work I did on the wml security templates for the Debian web server way back in january which have been used extensively in DSAs since then.
sac had not been updated in Debian, and I read in the wnpp that it was orphaned, so I took the latest version, updated it and sent it to the University's server in order to upload it to master today...
I'm seriously thinking on joining Debian's security team, since I keep track of bugtrack now (spend at least 1h a day reading advisories) they are overloaded, and I find it fun to play with the source in order to find a reasonable exploit...
www.advogato.org /person/jfs/diary.html?start=11   (2416 words)

  
 Debian Security - Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system the way it is?")
Debian Security - Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system the way it is?")
Information on how to use FAI to build hardened computers would be pretty useful.
Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system the way it is?")
www.mailarchives.org /list/debian-security/msg/2002/01840   (595 words)

  
 Hardened Debian meeting & talk about the project status, goals anddevelopment.
Hardened Debian meeting and talk about the project status, goals anddevelopment.
Hi, As the head developer and project manager of the Hardened Debian project, I'm proud to announce that we are going to make a meeting in the project IRC channel (#debian-hardened on Freenode IRC network) to talk about the project goals, status, development and anything else interesting for anyone and related with the project.
There are some documents already online that can help to understand the things that we are going to talk about, if you haven't heard/know about them, i recommend reading http://wiki.debian-hardened.org and the Debian: Secure By Default project website at http://d-sbd.alioth.debian.org.
lists.debian.org /debian-project/2004/11/msg00045.html   (192 words)

  
 Debian -- harden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Harden a system by using a network intrusion detection system
Ola Lundqvist is responsible for this Debian package.
Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
packages.debian.org /testing/admin/harden.html   (208 words)

  
 Securing Debian Manual - Before the compromise
Debian does have an specific tool to check if a system needs to be updated (see Tiger below) but many users will just want to manually check if any security updates are available for their system.
Debian GNU/Linux includes tools for intrusion detection, which is the practice of detecting inappropriate or malicious activity on your local system, or other systems in your private network.
Debian GNU/Linux systems can easily be used to setup a honeynet, if you dedicate the time to implement and monitor it.
www.debian.org /doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html   (4097 words)

  
 Debian GNU/Linux Distributions
However, Debian fundamentally conforms to the open and distributed development model making it a very open distribution where even you can make a change to it if you so desired.
Debian is the basis of a number of commercial distributions and it also powers quite a few web sites including Linux.com.
Debian Hardened is a project that brings to Debian GNU/Linux high security and hardening features, hardened kernels nad packages (Stack Smashing Protector + PIE compiled), the DHKP and linux entropy pool enhancements (and the LTRNG) for strong cryptography.
www.togaware.com /linux/survivor/Debian_GNU_Linux.html   (522 words)

  
 Debian Hardened 2.4.28-pre3-hardened (DHKP)
In a Slashdot posting from over the weekend, there's note of a new project looking to taking an agressive approach to secutiry in PHP scripts and the servers they live on.
Defense lawyers are allowing many suspects from police officers to hardened street criminals to testify before grand juries, with notable success.
Traditions go rampant, all who are able to get out to party (except for the most hardened cynics), alcohol is consumed in alarmingly large quantities, and the entire city of Helsinki becomes one giant outdoor toilet.
www.stargeek.com /item/265132.html   (1780 words)

  
 Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system theway it is?")
I considered FAI but because I was only For ghost-like functionality, I was very happy with systemimager, which exists as a Debian package for woody and is easy to backport to potato -- and free.
Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or "Why is the base system the wayit is?")
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www.atm.tut.fi /list-archive/debian-security/msg04809.html   (197 words)

  
 Debian Hardened project status.
Currently, the project is in a mature state of development with many things already done and also a lot of testing of the work.
These GCC packages can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/debianhardened until i get an available machine for host an apt repository (at the moment, the installation of the packages by downloading each-one from SF.net is an ass-pain).
I have hardened also the binutils, and some of./net packages: - rinetd (some work for make it able to be chroot'ed as unprivileged user) - openssh (i'm working on the patches that bring SecurID Token use features, and others from independent hackers) - wu-ftpd, just added the stuff from WU-FTPD guys.
www.talkaboutsoftware.com /group/linux.debian.project/messages/2343.html   (428 words)

  
 Debian Manual - Installing Debian
The debain installer is given a lot of stick but it isn't all that bad really and will probably get quite a bit better when the text installer under development is released (probably with the release of sarge).
The instructions on the debian site are very complete which makes them rather long, more than a little dull and in places irrelevent to what we are trying to do.
Note: Quite a few hardened debian fans would quite like to see tasksel and dselect just quitly die a death.
www.crazysquirrel.com /computing/debian/install.jspx   (633 words)

  
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www.atm.tut.fi /list-archive/debian-security/msg04798.html   (178 words)

  
 Lexar Jumpdrive Linux Debian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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new-mp3players.com /lexar-jumpdrive-linux-debian.html   (673 words)

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