We looked at the WireGuard virtual private network (VPN) back in August and noted that it is built on top of a new cryptographic API being developed for the kernel, which is called Zinc. There has ...
The kernel project makes a strong promise to its users: the kernel ABI will not be changed in ways that break user-space code. The occasional failure notwithstanding, kernel developers do try to live ...
Note: this article is a followup to Zack Brown's "Android Low Memory Killer—In or Out?" Linux kernel headers are the unstable, constantly-changing, internal API of the kernel. This includes internal ...
Choosing Rust for a security-critical microkernel feels obvious on paper. Replace C with Rust and whole classes of memory ...
CISA Linux kernel vulnerability catalog update adds three actively exploited flaws on Friday, triggering a 72-hour federal patch mandate under Binding Operational Directive BOD 26-04 -- the strictest ...
Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead ...
Earlier today, we wrote that Microsoft was going to add some big new features to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including native support for Docker containers. It turns out that that ain’t the half ...
A kernel is the essential foundation of a computer's operating system (OS). It's the core that provides basic services for all other parts of the OS. It's the main layer between the OS and underlying ...
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