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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:30:04 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
"kernel-hardening\@lists.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Cc: Frank Novak <fnovak@...ibm.com>, George Wilson <gcwilson@...ibm.com>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@...hat.com>, Warren Grunbok II <grunbok@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Secure Open Source Project Guide
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Corey Bryant <coreyb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> In light of events like this http://lwn.net/Articles/535149/ "China, GitHub
>> and the man-in-the-middle (Greatfire)", we are thinking that a guide for
>> securing open source projects is needed. For example, recommending pull
>> requests or commits be PGP signed are a few things we've discussed that
>> could defend against a MITM attack inserting malicious code.
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts as to where we could publish such a guide?
>> Perhaps the Linux Foundation?
>>
>> I believe we have the resources on this mailing list to work through the
>> details and put together a succinct guide that we could take to a wider
>> audience.
>
> Yeah, sounds good. I think we could easily use the kernel-security
> wiki to work on it initially, and if it needs a different home in the
> end, we can move it then.
If someone picks a home, I'll do a brain dump of some of my concerns and
what I think can be done about it.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> -Kees
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Chrome OS Security
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