Re: CRIME FW: @Stake pulls pin on Geer: Effect on research and pu blication (fwd)

From: Mark Morrissey (markem@private)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 11:21:05 PDT

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    On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Zot O'Connor wrote:
    
    > Not having read the paper in detail.  Did they mention as part of the
    > monoculture the Intel chipset?  Having very different processors could
    > also mitigate this.
    
    Or perhaps even just having Linux and MS make the stack non-executable.
    
    Is anyone here aware of valid reasons why linux, MS, et al. need an
    executable stack?
    
    --mark
    



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