Bsd Now

This week on the show, we have all the latest news and stories! Plus an interview with BSD developer Alfred Perlstein, that you This episode was brought to you by Headlines The May issus of BSDMag is now out (https://bsdmag.org/download/reusing_openbsd/) GhostBSD Reusing OpenBSD's arc4random in multi-threaded user space programs Securing VPN's with GRE / Strongswan Installing XFCE 4.12 on NetBSD 7 Interview with Fernando Rodriguez, the co-founder of KeepCoding *** A rundown of the FPTW^XEXT.1 security reqiurement for General Purpose Operating Systems by the NSA (http://blog.acumensecurity.net/fpt_wx_ext-1-a-rundown/) NIST/NSA Validation Scheme Report (https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ppfiles/pp_os_v4.1-vr.pdf) The SFR or Security Functional Requirement requires that; "The OS shall prevent allocation of any memory region with both write and execute permissions except for [assignment: list of exceptions]." While nearly all operating systems currently support the use of the NX bit, or the equivalent