Hi, security is a really important topic, and it should get better visibility/attention on OOo.
And it's currently in focus, as you can see on http://blogs.sun.com/malte/entry/comments_on_the_black_hat I thought it would be a good idea to start a security project, which could take care for security and privacy related things long term. I would like to ask all of you to support and to vote for this new project, as proposed below. Best, Malte. ---------------------------------- MISSION STATEMENT The goal of the security project is to work on security and privacy related improvements and features in OpenOffice.org. Solutions need to be analyzed and discussed in a wider audience, before implementations in OpenOffice.org start. PROJECT PROPOSAL Members of the security project will help improving OpenOffice.org security and privacy by identifying possible security and privacy issues and by elaborating solutions. This includes general topics like encryption, password handling, digital signatures and certificate handling. The solution won't necessarily be implemented by members of the security team. Members of the project have some skills in the area of security and privacy, but don't necessarily need to be very familiar with the OpenOffice.org code base. The Security Project should also work on security and privacy issues with regard to the OpenOffice.org web site. This project supplements the efforts of the OpenOffice.org security team and will not supersede it. Undisclosed security vulnerabilities will still be handled by the security team alone, as well as the security bulletins and alerts, because such information can not be disclosed in advance to members of a project where everybody can join. As a long term goal, the security project could do some deeper security investigations in the existing code base, or elaborate some security related guidelines for developers. We invite the OpenOffice.org community to join the project and help us ensure that OpenOffice.org remains safe and reliable for all users. PROJECT LEAD: Malte Timmermann, Technical Architect Software Engineering, Sun Microsystems. Co-Leads: tbd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
