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

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Message-ID: <20190820165826.GB3736@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:58:26 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        security@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/admin-guide: Embargoed hardware
 security issues

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@...nel.org>. 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