John, you just volunteered to run the CloudStack security team.  
Congratulations!

Seriously though, would you like to start with a proposal for how we should 
handle these things?

Ewan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kinsella [mailto:j...@stratosec.co]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:10 PM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Query regarding where to store encryption keys
> 
> +1 :)
> 
> On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:59 PM, David Nalley wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ewan Mellor
> <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us]
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:32 PM
> >>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> >>> Cc: Kelven Yang; Sateesh Chodapuneedi; Devdeep Singh
> >>> Subject: Re: Query regarding where to store encryption keys
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Vijayendra Bhamidipati
> >>> <vijayendra.bhamidip...@citrix.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Team,
> >>>>
> >>>> This is with reference to bug CS-15151
> >>> (http://bugs.cloudstack.org/browse/CS-15151). I have some questions
> and
> >>> it would be great if you could share your knowledge and
> suggestions.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Why is that bug not publicly visible?
> >>
> >> Probably because it's highlighting a potential security hole.  That
> seems like a reasonable precaution for the reporter to have taken.
> >>
> >> Would you like to handle these some other way?
> >>
> >> Ewan.
> >>
> >
> > That's a perfectly valid reason to keep it private, - though now the
> > content of the bug has been publicly discussed, so one wonders at the
> > continued utility of it being private.
> >
> > Perhaps it's a good time to segue to discussing how we wish to handle
> > security bugs, and get that documented.
> >
> > --David
> 
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