Talk:Address space layout randomization

VMA introduced without gloss in oblique remarks
First use:

Entropy is increased by either raising the amount of virtual memory area space over which the randomization occurs or reducing the period over which the randomization occurs. The period is typically implemented as small as possible, so most systems must increase VMA space randomization.

Second use:

Interestingly, however, even for a small number of libraries there are a few bits of entropy gained here; it is thus potentially interesting to combine library load order randomization with VMA address randomization to gain a few extra bits of entropy. Note that these extra bits of entropy will not apply to other mmap segments, only libraries.

Apparently it either stands for Virtual Memory Address or Virtual Memory Area, but note that neither of these are listed on the VMA disambiguation page. &mdash; MaxEnt 13:44, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Date of first major OS implementation
The second and third citations used to back-up the claim that OpenBSD was the first major operating system to to support ASLR don't actually provide dates for such thing. I'm thinking they need to be removed and substituted for something else. Is that too much preciousness?

--Slpk (talk) 02:15, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

"Hardened BSD" listed at Redirects for discussion
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