From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Reply-To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Message-ID: <50733EB1.7050400@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:59:29 -0400 From: Corey Bryant MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5064A862.20708@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <506B19D5.80803@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <507312C2.3070704@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: Linux Security Workgroup To: Kees Cook Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Julia Lawall , James Morris , Theodore Tso , Paul Moore , Eric Paris , Tyler Hicks , zohar@us.ibm.com, john.johansen@canonical.com, Dan Carpenter , Fengguang Wu List-ID: On 10/08/2012 04:00 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Corey Bryant wrote: >> Here's a start on the wiki. There's not really a whole lot on it other than >> what we've discussed on the list, but it's a start. Comments and updates >> are very much welcome. >> >> http://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Security_Workgroup > > Cool! This looks good. > > We may want to add a mailing list pointer to this top-level page, so > people can find this list more directly. Good idea, I've added this. > >> A couple of questions: >> * What should the work group's scope be? The charter mentions " ... >> on-going security verification of Linux kernel subsystems ... ". I was >> thinking it would focus more on items like: fuzzing, static analysis, >> education for reviewing code, tooling/build security enhancements. But I >> have a feeling it will start to include Kernel development projects too. > > I think it should, yes. Finding bugs is, of course, important, but I'd > like to have a single point of contact for development tasks too. > That's fine with me. I just want to have a clear understanding more than anything. >> * Where should we document inactive, but desired, projects? I know Kees >> has https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening but I'm >> wondering if it makes sense to keep track of work items on the same wiki. > > I'll take a TODO to build up a Development section on the wiki and > move things from the ubuntu wik Awesome, thanks! -- Regards, Corey Bryant