Security Hardened Kernels For
Linux Servers
Sunil Gadi
sunilgadi at gmail dot com
This site hosts my Masters thesis "Hardened Kernels For Linux
Servers"
that I finished in 2004 under the guidance of
Dr. Prabhaker Mateti, Associate
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State
University.
We believe that systems whose primary function is to be
servers must deploy specially hardened kernels not only for performance
reasons but even more importantly for security reasons.
We build specialized kernels for Anonymous FTP server, Web
server, Mail server, and a File server. This thesis
contributes a kernel source code patch for hardening kernels of Linux
servers.
More details
A few ready-to-use kernels, and all the files including the Linux
kernel source patch, thesis
documentation and slides are downloadable at
project page at Sourceforge
