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HardenedBSD
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.. image:: ./images/Logo-label-hardenedbsd.png
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Introduction
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HardenedBSD is a fork of FreeBSD, founded in 2014, that implements
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exploit mitigations and security hardening technologies. The primary
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goal of HardenedBSD is to perform a clean-room re-implementation of
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the grsecurity patchset for Linux to HardenedBSD.
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Why Fork FreeBSD?
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Work on HardenedBSD began in 2013 when Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb
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started working on an implementation of Address Space Layout
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Randomization (ASLR), based on PaX's publicly-available documentation,
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for FreeBSD. At that time, HardenedBSD was meant to be a staging area
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for experimental development on the ASLR patch. Over time, as the
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process of upstreaming ASLR to FreeBSD became more difficult,
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HardenedBSD naturally became a fork.
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HardenedBSD completed its ASLR implementation in 2015 with the
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strongest form of ASLR in any of the BSDs. Since then, HardenedBSD has
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moved on to implementing other exploit mitigations and hardening
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technologies. OPNsense, an open source firewall based on FreeBSD,
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incorporated HardenedBSD's ASLR implementation in 2016.
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HardenedBSD exists today as a fork of FreeBSD that closely follows
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FreeBSD's source code. HardenedBSD syncs with FreeBSD every six hours.
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HardenedBSD's Goals
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HardenedBSD aims to provide the BSD community with a clean-room
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reimplementation of the publicly-documented portions of the grsecurity
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patchset for Linux.
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Who is HardenedBSD?
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HardenedBSD's core team consists of Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb.
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Contributions have been made by many individuals around the globe.
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Cooperation with OPNsense
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In May 2015, HardenedBSD announced collaboration with OPNSense. A
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HardenedBSD-flavored version of OPNsense was published early on as a
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proof-of-concept work. As the proof-of-concept proved stable, robust,
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and scalable, OPNsense migrated to HardenedBSD with the support of
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HardenedBSD's core team.
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