Re: Don't kill hardened yet - Porting the patch forward is complete

After re-reading the official announcement, rather than the one I saw on 
a tech news website, it appears only hardened-sources are being pulled 
rather than the whole project. That is good news. For a moment I thought 
all the PaX files were being removed, which would be a major blow to 
security for those who need it.

Per announcement:
> Also, all PaX related packages, except
sys-kernel/hardened-sources, will remain available for the time being.
https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2017-08-19-hardened-sources-removal.html

I guess I can live with an overlay for now, although 
unofficial-hardened-sources would make a nice addition to the entire 
project, they are very stable for me. Thank you again and keep up the 
good work.

On 2017-08-23 10:10, bob-Eg+PUiHjXiRWk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I just heard that gentoo-hardened will be scrapped by end-of-month.
> Well, I have some good news - it doesn't have to be. A project has
> risen up to continue supporting the patch on future kernels and I have
> been running it successfully for over a month with the stock hardened
> profile.
> 
> You can download the patches here, they are also GPG signed:
> https://github.com/minipli/linux-unofficial_grsec/releases
> 
> So-called "linux-hardened project (KSPP)" and "SELinux" do not even
> slightly compare at their current stage of development in terms of
> kernel hardening and PaX protection. In the mid-term, I would
> recommend using these forward patches for hardened-LTS 4.9.x and hope
> Gentoo-hardened will continue for awhile longer while we wait for
> further improvements.
> 
> Thank you for your time and concern.