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Trusted Path Execution – an unorthodox kernel module
For the past two months, I’ve been working on this project:
https://github.com/cormander/tpe-lkm
This kernel modules implements Trusted Path Execution (TPE), a security feature that anyone who is looking for an easy, single solution that will prevent all kinds of exploits. The short of it is, a user can’t execute code that they can write to. Meaning, if they download, compile, or otherwise write a file on the system with executable code, they can not execute it. This single handedly closes the door on a whole range of system exploits.
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