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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.

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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. — MaxEnt 13:44, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

The redirect Hardened BSD has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 29 § Hardened BSD until a consensus is reached. Greatder (talk) 11:20, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]