Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/admin-guide: Embargoed hardware security issues

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 20 2019 - 12:58:29 EST


On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:58:50AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:25:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > +Contact
> > +-------
> > +
> > +The Linux kernel hardware security team is separate from the regular Linux
> > +kernel security team.
> > +
> > +The team only handles the coordination of embargoed hardware security
> > +issues. Reports of pure software security bugs in the Linux kernel are not
> > +handled by this team and the reporter will be guided to contact the regular
> > +Linux kernel security team (:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/
> > +<securitybugs>`) instead.
> > +
> > +The team can be contacted by email at <hardware-security@xxxxxxxxxx>. This
> > +is a private list of security officers who will help you to coordinate an
> > +issue according to our documented process.
> > +
> > +The list is encrypted and email to the list can be sent by either PGP or
> > +S/MIME encrypted and must be signed with the reporter's PGP key or S/MIME
> > +certificate. The list's PGP key and S/MIME certificate are available from
> > +https://www.kernel.org/....
>
> This link needs to be filled in?
>
> > +Encrypted mailing-lists
> > +-----------------------
> > +
> > +We use encrypted mailing-lists for communication. The operating principle
> > +of these lists is that email sent to the list is encrypted either with the
> > +list's PGP key or with the list's S/MIME certificate. The mailing-list
> > +software decrypts the email and re-encrypts it individually for each
> > +subscriber with the subscriber's PGP key or S/MIME certificate. Details
> > +about the mailing-list software and the setup which is used to ensure the
> > +security of the lists and protection of the data can be found here:
> > +https://www.kernel.org/....
>
> Ditto?

Yes, they will once the links are up and running :)

thanks,

greg k-h