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dotSecurity 2016 - Theo de Raadt - Privilege Separation and Pledge

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Theo de Raadt explains privilege separation and the development of the pledge system call in OpenBSD to restrict process capabilities.

Filmed at 2016.dotsecurity.io on April 22nd in Paris. More talks on thedotpost.com Privilege separation is a programming technique which splits a program into distrinct units. Each unit then performs part of the task, but in a distinct security domain. Theo presents the recent development of the pledge(2) subsystem in OpenBSD which led to some surprising advances in this technique.

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