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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:13:32 +0000
From: Art Manion <zmanion@...tonmail.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Becoming a CVE Naming Authority for your project
On 2025-11-05 05:30, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> The problem is that individuals can't be CNAs, which means you'd need to do
> something like going through the cost and overhead of setting up a shell
> corporation or similar to meet the checkbox requirement that an individual
> can't be a CNA but the same individual fronted by a paper entity can.
>
> Does anyone know what the thinking behind this is? It excludes any OSS
> project that doesn't have some entity fronting it from being a CNA. If by
> "major" you mean "lots of people involved in the project" then there are
> probably entities fronting them but if you mean "lots of users and critical to
> Internet operation" then see the famous xkcd cartoon, and that person can't be
> a CNA.
I believe that there are no strict requirements to be a non-individual legal
entity and that in practice, a somewhat informal "project" can be a CNA.
Individuals as CNAs are rare, but here is one:
https://www.cve.org/partnerinformation/ListofPartners
- Art
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