[bug#27394] [PATCH] gnu: tor: Add seccomp support.

[ng0]

Rutger Helling transcribed 2.6K bytes:
> Hey ng0, 
> 
> I think that ticket references whether the default torrc should have
> "Sandbox 1".

I understood the Whonix mail, which is how I got to the trac of tor,
in the way that they don't enable seccomp because tor does not enable
it as default. I'm not 100% positive on this, but I think I used
tor with +seccomp and hardening in Gentoo for a very long time.


> This patch doesn't do that, you still have to set that
> manually if you want to use it. It only gives you the option (Tor will
> just ignore that option in Guix right now). 
> 
> I also don't think that hardening and the sandbox bite each other in any
> way. 
> 
> On 2017-06-16 14:01, ng0 wrote:
> 
> > Rutger Helling transcribed 2.5K bytes: 
> > 
> >> Hello, 
> >> 
> >> this patch adds seccomp support to tor.
> > 
> > There's the question if we would want that.
> > tor doesn't enable it by default, see: 
> > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19215
> > But we also enable hardening by default, which differs from the tor default.
> > I have no problem with moving unstable features in, but hardening
> > seems much more tested to me than seccomp.

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