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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Release Digsig 1.5: kernel module for run-time authentication of binaries
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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 09:56 +0000, Makan Pourzandi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Digsig development team would like to announce the release 1.5 of digsig.
>
> This kernel module helps system administrators control Executable and
> Linkable Format (ELF) binary execution and library loading based on
> the presence of a valid digital signature. The main functionality is
> to help system administrators distinguish applications he/she trusts
> (and therefore signs) from viruses, worms (and other nuisances). It is
> based on the Linux Security Module hooks.

does this also prevent people writing their own elf loader in a bit of
perl and just mmap the code ?


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