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Random numbers for ASLR

Posted May 15, 2009 18:17 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Random numbers for ASLR by hppnq
Parent article: Random numbers for ASLR

ASLR can make attacks very much harder, but only on 64-bit systems (and of
course only if more than 8 bits of randomness is used). On 32-bit there
isn't the room to make attacks significantly harder :(

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