Lavabit and End-point Security

[Steve Furlong]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:27 AM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:

> if i were to summarize what i have found effective against dedicated
> and resourceful attackers (again, i can't go into details :) this
> would be the top 5:
>
> 1. use a common distro, but rebuild critical components - bootloader,
> initramfs, openssl, openssh, the kernel, gnutls, libgmp, use 64bit,
> etc.
>

By "rebuild" do you mean compile it yourself or are you talking full-up
review and rewrite? The former should be no problem for anyone capable of
setting up a secure hosting service. The latter is probably beyond the
means of small teams in any commercially reasonable timeframe.

-- 
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209
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