[openstack-dev] [OSSG] Announcement: I'll be transitioning away from OpenStack

2015-03-16 Thread Bryan D. Payne
I have recently accepted a new position with a company that does not work with OpenStack. As a result, I'll be transitioning away from this community. As such, I wanted to offer a few quick notes: * OpenStack Security Guide -- I have transitioned leadership of this security documentation effort

Re: [openstack-dev] nominating Nathaniel Dillon for security-doc core

2015-03-05 Thread Bryan D. Payne
Thanks everyone. I've added Nathaniel to security-doc core. Welcome Nathaniel! Cheers, -bryan __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:uns

[openstack-dev] nominating Nathaniel Dillon for security-doc core

2015-03-05 Thread Bryan D. Payne
To security-doc core and other interested parties, Nathaniel Dillon has been working consistently on the security guide since our first mid-cycle meet up last summer. In that time he has come to understand the inner workings of the book and the doc process very well. He has also been a consistent

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-security] [Barbican][OSSG] Mid Cycle Attendance / Crossover.

2014-11-07 Thread Bryan D. Payne
I would like to try to attend both, assuming the Barbican guys will have me ;-) -bryan On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Clark, Robert Graham wrote: > Hi All, > > How many people would want to attend both the OSSG mid-cycle and the > Barbican one? Both expected to be on the west coast of the US.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-security] [Barbican][OSSG][Keystone] Mid-Cycle Meetup

2014-05-22 Thread Bryan D. Payne
I plan on attending. -bryan On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jarret Raim wrote: > All, > > There was some interest at the Summit in semi-combining the mid-cycle meet > ups for Barbican, Keystone and the OSSG as there is some overlap in team > members and interest areas. The current dates being

Re: [openstack-dev] [barbican] Cryptography audit by OSSG

2014-04-18 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> >Is anyone following the openstack-security list and/or part of the > OpenStack Security Group (OSSG)? This sounds like another group and list > we should keep our eyes on. > I'm one of the OSSG leads. We'd certainly welcome your involvement in OSSG. In fact, there has been much interest

Re: [openstack-dev] Diversity as a requirement for incubation

2013-12-20 Thread Bryan D. Payne
+1 -bryan On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On 12/18/2013 12:34 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > >> I have more of an issue with a project failing *after* becoming >> integrated than during incubation. That's why we have the incubation >> period to begin with. For the same reason,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] Nominations to Horizon Core

2013-12-12 Thread Bryan D. Payne
I just wanted to close the loop here. I understand the position that others are taking and it appears that I'm outnumbered :-) While I disagree with this approach, it sounds like that's where we are at today. Even with this decision, I would encourage the horizon dev team to utilize Paul as a se

Re: [openstack-dev] Incubation Request for Barbican

2013-12-12 Thread Bryan D. Payne
7 Arash Ghoreyshi > > 5 Chad Lung > > 3 Dolph Mathews > > 2 John Vrbanac > > 1 Steven Gonzales > > 1 Russell Bryant > > 1 Bryan D. Payne > > > >It appears to be an effort done by a group, and not an individual. Most &

Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] Nominations to Horizon Core

2013-12-11 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> > We can involve people in security reviews without having them on the > core review team. They are separate concerns. > Yes, but those people can't ultimately approve the patch. So you'd need to have a security reviewer do their review, and then someone who isn't a security person be able to

Re: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] Nominations to Horizon Core

2013-12-11 Thread Bryan D. Payne
Re: Removing Paul McMillan from core I would argue that it is critical that each project have 1-2 people on core that are security experts. The VMT is an intentionally small team. They are moving to having specifically appointed security sub-teams on each project (I believe this is what I heard

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] FFE Request: Encrypt Cinder volumes

2013-09-06 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> 2) There is general consensus that the simple config based key manager > (single key) does provide some amount of useful security. I believe it > does, just want to make sure we're in agreement on it. Obviously we > want to improve this in the future. > I believe that it does add value. For e

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] key management and Cinder volume encryption

2013-09-04 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> External dependencies are fine, obviously. The difference is whether we > actually have code to interface with those external dependencies. We > have code to talk to databases and message queues. There's no code > right now to interface with anything for key management. > Ok, this makes sense

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] key management and Cinder volume encryption

2013-09-03 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> > How can someone use your code without a key manager? >> >> Some key management mechanism is required although it could be >> simplistic. For example, we’ve tested our code internally with an >> implementation of the key manager interface that returns a single, constant >> key. >> > That wo

Re: [openstack-dev] Secure live VM migration in cloud (openstack)

2013-08-24 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> I am doing thesis in cloud computing security domain, i selected to secure > vm migration process in openstack. > Please let me know about this idea. i have done some initial work on it. i > need comment of you people which will be helpful for me. > The OpenStack Security Guide has a (somewhat

Re: [openstack-dev] [OSSG] ASK - What is the regular OSSG IRC meetup schedule? #TIA

2013-08-21 Thread Bryan D. Payne
FYI, currently 1800 UTC is 11a Pacific. Hopefully you can still make it. Cheers, -bryan On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Sriram Subramanian wrote: > Thanks Bryan, would like to get involved more. Meet you tomorrow at 10 am > PST/ 1800 UTC. > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11

Re: [openstack-dev] [OSSG] ASK - What is the regular OSSG IRC meetup schedule? #TIA

2013-08-21 Thread Bryan D. Payne
Thursdays at 1800 UTC. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/OpenStackSecurity -bryan On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Sriram Subramanian wrote: > > > -- > Thanks, > -Sriram > > ___ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org

Re: [openstack-dev] Move keypair management out of Nova and into Keystone?

2013-07-02 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> If you do not trust keystone to give you the right information you have > already lost as keystone is used (afaik) to check for authorization > anyway. > This is true. > Can you be a little bit more explicit on the threat model you have in > mind and what guarantees Barbican would give you tha

Re: [openstack-dev] Move keypair management out of Nova and into Keystone?

2013-07-02 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> +1 for using Barbican >> > > Simo just got finished saying Barbican was *not* the correct place to put > this information... Understood. I'm disagreeing with Simo. And I'm agreeing with Jarret Raim. -bryan ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-

Re: [openstack-dev] Move keypair management out of Nova and into Keystone?

2013-07-02 Thread Bryan D. Payne
> > I don't understand. Users already have custody of their own keys. The > > only thing that Keystone/Nova has is the public key fingerprint [1], not > > the private key... > > You acatually have the public key, not just the fingerprint, but indeed > I do not see why abrbican should be involved h

[openstack-dev] SecurityImpact tagging in gerrit

2013-06-21 Thread Bryan D. Payne
This is a quick note to announce that the OpenStack gerrit system supports a SecurityImpact tag. If you are familiar with the DocImpact tag, this works in a similar fashion. Please use this in the commit message for any commits that you feel would benefit from a security review. Commits with thi