[Tor-BSD] [CFT] HardenedBSD's security/tor-capsicum port

Shawn Webb shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org
Tue Feb 27 12:59:32 EST 2018


On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 05:55:00PM +0000, George Rosamond wrote:
> Shawn Webb:
> > Hey All,
> > 
> > Many of you know that I've been working on Capsicum support in Tor.
> > I've added a ports entry for it in the HardenedBSD ports tree,
> > security/tor-capsicum.
> > 
> > To enable capmode, you'll need to add "Sandbox 1" to your torrc. Note
> > that since libevent does not support Capsicum and creates sockets on
> > its own, using DNSPort (most commonly used in transparent proxy
> > setups) with capmode enabled is unsupported. I've filed a bug report
> > with libevent to start the discussion around adding a
> > Capsicum-friendly API for socket creation/maintenance.
> > 
> > On HardenedBSD 12-CURRENT/amd64, security/tor-capsicum is compiled with:
> >   - PIE
> >   - Full RELRO
> >   - CFI (without the cfi-icall scheme)
> >   - SafeStack
> >   - Retpoline
> >   - Capsicum support
> > 
> > Please test and let me know any success or failure stories.
> 
> Wow.  Can you send a diff to FreeBSD for security/tor and
> security/tor-devel?

I can send a diff up to FreeBSD for security/tor-capsicum. I'd rather
not touch the other ports as Capsicum support is highly experimental.

Thanks,

-- 
Shawn Webb
Cofounder and Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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