Hi! On Fri 2018-03-09 13:15:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Alan Cox <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If you want to be taken seriously then I think minimum you also need to > > - Give a GPG key for messages to the list > > Oh, I don't want to be taken seriously by people who use gpg > encrypted email. Heh. I see that gpg has some usability problems, but we do encrypt our http connections, and email is at least as sensitive. > > - State what security is in place (encryption etc) to protect the list > > itself > > That could be stated, but it's worth noting the other rules. > > If you have some long corrupt vendor disclosure period and are worried > about any good guys finding out (the bad guys probably already have > it), we're not the list for you anyway. > > Keep your "we'll keep security problems under wraps so that they can > be exploited for a long time" emails to yourself, or send them to > /dev/null. Umm, they will not sent it to /dev/null, as that is not encrypted :-). I guess I can act as this kind of /dev/null. It might be useful to note the issues, and for the serious ones notify you few days before the "long" embargo is going to expire... Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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