responsible disclosure

Full Disclosure of Vulnerabilities – pros/cons and fake arguments (Vidstrom paper)

2002/04/08 : Arne Vidstrom points a list of the pros, cons and fake arguments on full disclosure of vulnerabilities.

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Was the Efail disclosure horribly screwed up? – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering (blog post)

2018/05/17: Matthew Green thoughts on the EFAIL vulnerabilities disclosure, its handling and the future of PGPRead more

'Responsible Disclosure' Draft Could Have Legal Muscle - Rasch on Christey and Wysopal draft

2002/03/11 : Rasch analyses Christey and Wysopal IETF Draft.

"The report articulates what many in the security industry have considered to be a reasonable method of reporting security vulnerabilities." (p.1) 

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Exploit Code on Trial (Poulsen paper)

2003/11/23 : "Security pros gathering at a Stanford University Law School conference on responsible vulnerability disclosure Saturday harmonized on the principle that vendors should be privately notified of holes in their products, and given at least some time to produce a patch before any...Read more

Interview with Rain Forest Puppy (by Parata)

2007/05/08 : Here is a Rain Forest Puppy interview done by Antonio Parata.

In June 2000, the hacker Rain Forest Puppy published his RFPolicy. The policy is known as the first attempt to formalize the complex issue of disclosure to the vendor or maintainer.

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Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination Open to Review (on FIRST Guidelines)

2017/01/20 : Omar Santos writes about the new FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure.

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FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure Version 1.1 2020

Spring 2020 : Here is the Version 1.1 of the FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure. 

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Toward the development of industry standards for security vulnerability handling - OIS objectives

Here is a presentation on objectives, the way of reporting and addressing vulnerabilities, security tools, and proposed organizational framework by OIS.

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Three Minutes with Rain Forest Puppy (RFP interview by Zetter)

2001/09/28 : Here is a Rain Forest Puppy interview done by Kim Zetter about the RFPolicy.

In June 2000, the hacker Rain Forest Puppy published his RFPolicy. The policy is known as the first attempt to formalize the complex issue of disclosure to the vendor or maintainer....Read more

What “Efail” Tells Us About Email Vulnerabilities and Disclosure (Lawfare article)

2018/05/24: Article on EFAIL vulnerability, email vulnerabilities and the patching of those vulnerabilities. It questions the safety of emails in generalRead more

Deconstructing the myths behind the full-disclosure debate (Shepherd paper)

2003/01/22 : Stephen A. Shepherd published in SANS a paper which had a big influence on vulnerability disclosure discussion. He defines responsible disclosure and recalls the key events on vulnerability disclosure debate. Read more

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