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AI-Driven Security Enhancements for OpenBSD Kernel
Just wondering on which code base this AI was trained. Inheriting the bias of the training set is likely bad -Otto Martijn van Duren <openbsd+tech@list.imperialat.at> schreef op 11 juni 2024 14:44:05 CEST: >Noone said all added checks are useless. But adding these to OpenBSD >without human verification is extremely unlikely. I'd say continue >with your projects, go over the changes yourself, reason if they are >sane and if you've convinced yourself chop up the good bits into >reasonably sized patches and send them to the list. Maybe start of >with a single change and slowly ramp up the amount in a single diff >once you get some traction. > >martijn@ > >On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 09:28 -0300, Alfredo Ortega wrote: >> I added 10000+ checks so far, in about 4 or 5 hs. Final count will >> likely be close to a million. >> It's true that many are useless, perhaps up to 50% of them. Most >> stack protections put into place by the compiler are also useless. >> But the question is, how many are not useless? and how many checks >> humans missed, but the AI correctly put in place? >> How many vulnerabilities are catched by those new checks? Those are >> the important metrics imho. >> >> El mar, 11 jun 2024 a las 8:59, Stuart Henderson >> (<stu@spacehopper.org>) escribió: >> > >> > On 2024/06/11 07:41, Alfredo Ortega wrote: >> > > But the fact that whole netinet/netinet6 10000+ checks were added with >> > > no human intervention and produced a working, arguably safer kernel, >> > > is surprising to me. >> > > Beware that at the current state, it might not be actually safer as >> > > the checks may actually introduce new bugs. >> > >> > So, 10000+ checks, impossible to properly review, but some of which are >> > obviously at best useless, and even the person showing the changes warns >> > (correctly) that they may introduce bugs. This doesn't really seem a >> > good topic for tech@, perhaps misc if anywhere. >> > >> > -- Verstuurd vanaf mijn Android apparaat met K-9 Mail. Excuseer mijn beknoptheid.
AI-Driven Security Enhancements for OpenBSD Kernel