Re: Hardened Secure Linux From Scratch book chapter proposals

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 14:16, ashes wrote:
> Maybe we can pass this around a bit and see what happens.
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> Forward:
> Having thousands of computer system security articles available to read on
> the web, this book was conceived to fill the demand for a modern all in one
> manual. Named after and based on Linux From Scratch, HLFS is a book
> describing how to build a hardened source based Linux operating system from
> scratch. This book aims to describe various problems and solutions that
> concern data privacy and system integrity on the Linux platform.
>
> Audience:
> This book is not for everyone. It describes in detail problems with
> programming languages, privilege access control for software applications
> and users, cryptography, and what to do with this technology. The
> advantages to reading this book would be in having an understanding of
> security from the lowest level, and being able to use all that information
> in constructing an entire system.
> -----
>
> Also I made a new propolice hint with new patches. IBM added support for
> Gentoo's glibc patches, so I added them back to the hint. They cause more
> errors, but I think its a better design, and it is optional.
> ftp://twocents.mooo.com/pub/propolice.txt

My tiny addition I think points out the innovative facet of the project:

Having thousands of computer system security articles available to read on
the web, this book was conceived to fill the demand for a modern all in one
manual that, in contrast with the previous, will educate the reader on how to 
build a hardened system and not to harden an existing one or have others do 
it for him. Named after and based on Linux From Scratch, HLFS is a book.....

IMHO, many books have tried to cover all aspects of securing a system. This 
project however does not do simply that. It moreover teaches you how the real 
work of securing a system is done.
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himicos
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