The OpenSSL wiki has recently attracted the attention of some spammers who requested accounts and provided what initially appeared to be reasonable justifications (which we now suspect were just clever cut-and-paste edits of CVs found online). I wish they could put half as much effort into improving OpenSSL as they did to vandalizing it. We're repaired the damage (if I missed any please sing out). We're obviously going to have to be more careful about creating new accounts in the future. We have received a flurry of requests in the past few days that due to timing and other clues I won't mention appear to be a continuation of the spamming. We are ignoring them. If you are a legitimate OpenSSL user who made such a request, please keep that in mind and try again in a week or so. The last thing we want to do is discourage legitimate participation. On the other hand, cleaning up the spam is tedious so please note that going forward we'll need better evidence that new contributors are real OpenSSL users. How we do that we'll need to figure out as we go; please bear with us. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess OpenSSL Software Foundation 20-22 Wenlock Road London N1 7GU United Kingdom +44 1785508015 +1 301 874 2571 direct marquess at opensslfoundation.org stevem at openssl.org
