From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Daniel Souza <thehazard@gmail.com>
Cc: Allison <fireflyblue@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Rootkits
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:21:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113592915.23839.6.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1e1d5f40504151140411a3387@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:40 -0700, Daniel Souza wrote:
> A way to "protect" system calls is, after boot a trusted kernel image,
> take a MD5 of the syscalls functions implementations (the opcodes that
> are part of sys_read for example) and store it in a secure place.
That's the problem, once the kernel is compromised there's no such thing
as a secure place. Solving this problem requires things like "trusted
computing" aka hardware support.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-15 18:15 Kernel Rootkits Allison
2005-04-15 18:33 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 18:34 ` Daniel Souza
2005-04-15 18:36 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-15 18:37 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-15 19:19 ` Andre Tomt
2005-04-15 18:40 ` Daniel Souza
2005-04-15 19:21 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-04-15 19:40 ` Daniel Souza
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-15 19:15 Allison
2005-04-15 19:38 ` Daniel Souza
2005-04-15 17:33 Malita, Florin
2005-04-15 18:08 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-15 16:02 Allison
2005-04-15 17:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
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