GSoC 2013 proposal

[Christos]

Good afternoon,

my name is Christos and I'm an MSc student in Information Security at 
Royal Holloway University of London.

I was recently thinking of how could a kernel control flow integrity 
mechanism at compile time by enforcing checks on the ret instructions. I 
think that a good start for that would be to perform these checks to 
"hot-spot" data structures of the kernel which are usually subverted 
during an intrusion (mainly by rootkits).

I don't have previous experience with the gcc project and the only big 
project I've worked on before is syslog-ng. As a result I really need 
comments upon the idea and mentoring. I have in mind that it can be a 
good start for an extensible control flow integrity at compile time.

I'll be waiting for discussion.

Cheers

-- 
Christos Tsopokis