[Info-vax] VMS and security

[John Dallman]

In article <tkh0tn$j43$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> VMS will not need all security features available elsewhere, but
> VMS will definitely need a good portion of them to be considered
> OK.

When people are making decisions to adopt a new OS, having familiar
security mechanisms available definitely makes it easier. ASLR and KASLR
are fairly simple, but they need to be implemented in the OS loader to
work properly, so they're definitely VSI's job. 

Some compiler protections should be available via the LLVM native
back-end. 

An equivalent of chroot would require setting up new tables of symbols
and logicals. I don't know enough about VMS internals to know how
complicated that would be. 

John