RE: Proposed action: Establishing CWE/CAPEC Crypto Working Group

2021-09-08 Thread Chris Eng
Is it the goal of CWE to provide prescriptive guidance on these things? If so, then you might need a working group to keep up with developments in the space, since NIST updates infrequently and usually lags behind industry best practices. Or is it enough just to have categories for insecure alg

Re: Proposed action: Establishing CWE/CAPEC Crypto Working Group

2021-09-09 Thread Kurt Seifried
Some problems have a set of relatively simple solutions like a lot of web problems boil down to using a good framework so SQL injection, XSS and so on mostly go away and get patched from the project responsible for the framework. Picking a good framework is often left as an exercise for the reader,

RE: Proposed action: Establishing CWE/CAPEC Crypto Working Group

2021-09-09 Thread Fung, Jason M
t I would start with asking why we are in the business of providing crypto guidance rather than pointing audience to available resources. - Jason From: Chris Eng Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 11:41 AM To: Alec J Summers ; CWE CAPEC Board Subject: RE: Proposed action: Establishing CWE/CA

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2021-09-09 Thread Jason Oberg
Hi Alec, I hope you had a good weekend as well. I am also not opposed to having a working group in this area, I think a venue for cryptography subject matter experts to work together to better capture cryptographic weaknesses would be great. Similar to Chris, do you have any thoughts on what this