On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Matt Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The OpenSSL Development Team have today released the OpenSSL Project
> Security Policy.
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> The policy has been published at:
> https://www.openssl.org/about/secpolicy.html

Hi Matt,

Thank you and the OpenSSL team for clarifying the security policy.

One particular clause caught my attention:

We use the mailing list described at
http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros for this.
We may also include other organisations that would otherwise qualify
for list membership. We may withdraw notifying individual
organisations from future prenotifications if they leak issues before
they are public or over time do not add value (value can be added by
providing feedback, corrections, test results, etc.)

"Do not add value" seems somewhat arbitrary, and I hope that vendors
will be treated fairly, without discrimination. How can a vendor know
that it's providing "value". How are vendors rated ? Is there an
internal tracking system for vendor's "value", where they can check
it, and know when they are "adding value" or "losing value".


Perhaps, it might need to be clarified further.

>
> The policy details how we handle and classify security issues, as well
> as who we tell about them and when.
>
> Matt
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