Bsd Now

Coming up this time on the show, we'll be speaking with Christos Zoulas, a NetBSD security officer. He's got a new project called blacklistd, with some interesting possibilities for stopping bruteforce attacks. We've also got answers to your emails and all this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines New PAE support in OpenBSD (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142990524317070&w=2) OpenBSD has just added Physical Address Extention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension) support to the i386 architecture, but it's probably not what you'd think of when you hear the term In most operating systems, PAE's main advantage is to partially circumvent the 4GB memory limit on 32 bit platforms - this version isn't for that Instead, this change specifically allows the system to use the No-eXecute Bit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit#OpenBSD) of the processor for the userland, further hardening the in-place memory protections Other operating s