safeside
Understand and mitigate software-observable side-channels (by google)
Brace
Toolkit compatible with multiple Linux distros that allows for installation of handpicked applications, along with corresponding configs that have been tuned for reasonable privacy and security. (by divestedcg)
| safeside | Brace | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 452 | 33 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.9 | 7.8 | |
| over 3 years ago | 1 day ago | |
| C++ | JavaScript | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
safeside
Posts with mentions or reviews of safeside.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-01.
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Trying to find information about spectre and Meltdown. (Security)
You are looking for 'side channel attacks on ARM'. Looks like Google has some code, and at least the ARM V8-A appears to be vulnerable. https://github.com/google/safeside
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Spectre Exploits in the “Wild”
Google's SafeSide project published a number of practical demonstrations of leaking data through side-channels.
https://github.com/google/safeside
Brace
Posts with mentions or reviews of Brace.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-01.
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Spectre Exploits in the “Wild”
I have a much more up-to-date and comprehensive GPL-3.0 package called 'brace' available here: https://github.com/divestedcg/brace
Supports Fedora, Arch, Debian, and openSUSE.
Has GNOME, Firefox, kernel cmdline, sysctl, firewalld, NetworkManager, and systemd unit hardening among other things.
Goes well with firejail (am a developer of): https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
- Show HN: Brace – A system hardening package with usability first
What are some alternatives?
When comparing safeside and Brace you can also consider the following projects:
spectre-meltdown-checker - Reptar, Downfall, Zenbleed, ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout, Foreshadow, Spectre, Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux & BSD