The Gentoo Linux eXtreme Security ProjectThe Gentoo Linux eXtreme Security Project supports the research, engineering, prototyping and integration of advanced state-of-the-art security technology. The technology developed under the umbrella of this project is specifically aimed at professional environments where system administrators and security principals of big corporate server landscapes know how to deal with security incidents, absolutely know their requirements and are searching for technological challenges and new fields of experience for extending their knowledge about how to utilize and integrate full-fledged advanced security technologies in order to protect the digital assets of their company. Development will be settled in three phases. During these phases, the focus will be given to several aspects of programming. The Placebo phase consists of duplicating existing toolchain ebuilds and forming a foundation for creating the new GXS Profile and ebuilds for GXS kernel, GXS glibc and GXS version of gcc. After the successful placebo phase, the ebuilds are ready to be equipped with "real" security patches for performing security improvements. During this phase we already know how the ebuilds work and when problems are encountered that these problems must come from the introduced changes in phase 2. This phase is called Integration and it finishes with alpha testing and early beta releases. In the release phase, the beta releases increase and steps are taken towards a first final release of GXS.
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org. The extreme-security project maintains the following herds:
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