Re: Google to reward security improvements to some open source projects

2013-10-10 Thread Brian Smith
Rob Stradling wrote: > Gerv, how about asking Google to add NSS to the list of projects that > are in-scope for this new rewards program? > > I believe Chromium still uses NSS for TLS, and so NSS would qualify for > the "Open-source foundations of Google Chrome" category. > > Firefox uses NSS, an

Re: Google to reward security improvements to some open source projects

2013-10-10 Thread Gervase Markham
On 10/10/13 16:35, chris hofmann wrote: > The one idea that is new here is the idea about paying developers for > fixing vulnerabilities in the code they work on. That could create the > wrong incentives if not managed and tracked properly, setting up the > possibility of writing code that's insec

Re: Google to reward security improvements to some open source projects

2013-10-10 Thread Gervase Markham
On 10/10/13 11:21, Rob Stradling wrote: > Gerv, how about asking Google to add NSS to the list of projects that > are in-scope for this new rewards program? Good idea. Gerv ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.moz

Re: Google to reward security improvements to some open source projects

2013-10-10 Thread chris hofmann
Interesting experiment. We (the mozilla bounty evaluation team) have paid, on a case by case basis, for vulnerabilities outside the mozilla code for things affecting any dependencies we have for Firefox 3rd party libraries, or our core development application or services websites for some t

Re: Google to reward security improvements to some open source projects

2013-10-10 Thread Larissa Shapiro
Wow. Having worked on BIND and ISC DHCP for many years, I am *cheering* this! Fantastic. Personally while I can see the concern about contributor "theft" I think the way to go is to be aware, paying attention to whats going on with those contributors, and supporting their efforts on our… preferr

Re: Google to reward security improvements to some open source projects

2013-10-10 Thread Rob Stradling
On 10/10/13 11:01, Gervase Markham wrote: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/going-beyond-vulnerability-rewards.html Google are now paying people, retrospectively, for any patch that improves the security of OpenSSH, BIND, ISC DHCP, libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo, libpng, giflib, Chromiu

Google to reward security improvements to some open source projects

2013-10-10 Thread Gervase Markham
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/going-beyond-vulnerability-rewards.html Google are now paying people, retrospectively, for any patch that improves the security of OpenSSH, BIND, ISC DHCP, libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo, libpng, giflib, Chromium, Blink, OpenSSL, zlib and commonly used co