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by rshnotsecure 2161 days ago
OpenSSL recently passed a change in their vuln announcement policy to give a major firm, which everyone here knows I think, 7 days advance notice of any zero-day that they were made aware of.

This was the engineer who helped set up the new policy: https://awe.com

To be honest, maybe it's a good idea. It depends on how much support Huawei is willing to give OpenSSL.

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In case anyone is curious:

> The OMC voted this week to update our security policy [1] to include the option of us giving prenotification to companies with which we have a commercial relationship. (Edited to clarify: the vote was to allow notification to our Premium Support customers and this does not include lower support levels, sponsors, or GitHub sponsors.)

* https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2020/05/12/security-prenot...

* https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html#premium

So, being realistic here, that means the Chinese government is given 7 days advance notice?