Security Working Group Minutes

March 5, 2025

Participants: @maennchen, Daniel Janowski, @Alistair, @varnerac, @voltone

Updates from the CISO

CNA

  • New dates in March proposed at Mitre’s request
  • If/when meetings happen, CNA could be live in weeks

Grant Application

  • Revised proposal, waiting for feedback
    • First phase is to pen-test existing package manager integrations
  • Got first offers for pen-test providers
    • Started discussions with two, one for code review, one for red team
    • Recommendations? Share with @maennchen
  • Started to define “initiative” for EEF website for the purpose of fundraising in general

OpenChain

  • Elixir: done
  • Gleam: work started

NIST SSDF Sub-Standard

  • Work started by Jonatan to define an SSDF “profile”
    • Progress can be followed in Notion
    • Contributions welcome
  • Alignment with other ecosystems would be useful
    • Just hard to find out who else might be working on something like this
    • We asked NIST, they do not have visibility (at this time)

HTTP Clients in the ecosystem

  • Lots of clients, some not actively maintained
    • This state of things has security implications
  • Some discussion on whether to adopt “Mint” approach for Erlang/OTP
    • Perhaps as part of OTP?
  • Try and invite @ingela @kiko and perhaps Andrea next month

Distribution TLS by default

  • Two operating modes can be considered:
    • PSK (not great with TLS 1.2, no support in OTP with TLS 1.3)
    • Shared self-signed certificate
  • Goal is to have some (build) tooling to prepare a release config “automatically”
  • Align with OpenRiak, looking for migration to secure cluster
    • Might need ability to listen both with and without TLS
  • Configuring TLS settings at boot is tricky
  • Next steps:
    • Continue digging and documenting in Notion
    • Discuss with OTP team, if they join next meeting (see above)

Next meeting

Wed 2 April 2025 at 16:00 CET / 15:00 GMT / 10am EST / 7am PST / 0:00 (Thu) JST

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