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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 03:06:31 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Closed list
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:17:32PM -0400, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> I'd prefer if any private replacement for vendor-sec were either:
>
> 1. Strictly limited to vendor coordination of embargoed security
> issues (with membership reflecting this purpose), or
This is what we have with the list I've setup today.
> 2. Opened up to researchers who have contributed knowledge and
> findings in this area, and are deemed trustworthy by other list
> subscribers or some other community opinion.
We may setup a separate list for this later.
> In other words, it doesn't make sense to me to use "member of the old
> vendor-sec" as the only requirement for subscription, as some of the
> old members may not be eligible depending on the purpose of the new
> list.
Right. There will be a lot fewer people on the new list now. This
requirement is mostly just to start with what's obviously a subset of
the old vendor-sec's members.
> I understand that this is just a preliminary solution, but I
> think the question of membership should be sorted out sooner rather
> than later.
Indeed. I think my decision to limit this to Linux distro security
contacts takes care of that for this one list.
Alexander
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