| Johannes, Florian -
Sort of tangential to this topic, I did a small survey last summer about what users look for in determining the risk level of an Open source project, and the results were pretty disheartening. I was approaching this from the perspective of an open source project, wondering if we were putting our efforts into the things users cared to look at. I am a fan of the OpenSSF Best Practices badge, and that approach, in general. I was wondering if we should do more to expose, e.g. test results summaries, that sort of thing.
What I found was - there was basically no overlap between the things we were doing to ensure quality and trustworthiness, and the things the users were looking at to determine that.
I like to think that our users are pretty sophisticated…. anyway, here is a link to a summary for your amusement. (I was not asking about SBOMS because we are providing source, and I can see I forgot to even ask about code signing signature verification, but you get the idea.) At any rate, I think a lot could be done just to better educate users about what to look for.
Vicky
On Mar 12, 2025, at 1:31 PM, Johannes Ebke via open-regulatory-compliance <open-regulatory-compliance@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone, Apologies to the list, this last message was supposed to go to Florian privately, therefore the language gap. If anyone else knows anything about existing trustworthiness comparisons between open- and closed-source software from different perspectives I would be interested. All the best Johannes Ebke On 12.03.25 18:28, Johannes Ebke via open-regulatory-compliance wrote: Hallo und guten Abend,
Das finde ich prinzipiell auch sehr interessant! Ich würde mich gern auf die Liste der Interessierten setzen falls das zustandekommt.
Interessant für mich wäre auch, wie man closed-source dann bezüglich trustworthiness vergleichen (oder eben nicht vergleichen) kann. Das wäre konkret wichtig um bei Kaufentscheidungen der öffentlichen Hand was sinnvolles vorzugeben. Gibt es da auch schon Ansätze?
Viele Grüße
Johannes Ebke
On 12.03.25 15:15, Idelberger, Florian (IIWR) via open-regulatory- compliance wrote:
We have recently submitted a proposal for a research project would develop sth like this. Which would be open and accessible, if funded and deployed.
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Am 12.03.2025 um 15:06 schrieb Dick Brooks via open-regulatory- compliance <open-regulatory-compliance@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
FYI:
A UK Government report on open source software contains some very specific findings and recommendation to establish trustworthiness in open source software:
https://www.securityweek.com/uk-government-report-calls-for-stronger- open-source-supply-chain-security-practices/ <https:// www.securityweek.com/uk-government-report-calls-for-stronger-open- source-supply-chain-security-practices/>
/4.1.3 Trust in Open-Source Software/
/Trust in OSS is a critical concept//when adopting OSS components.How does one/
/come to trust an OSS component?//More often than not, “there is no sound basis/
/for trust in the Software Ecosystems (SECO) hubs”, with trust being considered/
/“founded or unfounded” (Hou et al., 2022)./
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/Outside of academic papers,trustworthiness wasn’t mentioned in any of the best/
/practices we reviewed//./
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/This is a significant gap in the best practices landscape, as trust plays a vital role/
/in adopting OSS components/.
This is precisely why a SCITT Trust Registry is essential, to serve as a trust anchor for trustworthy software products with specific cybersecurity labels providing justification for a “trust score” in the registry, which the buying public can query before buying a product.
The US Coast Guard is planning to implement a “Trust Registry” of approved products, which limits which products can be installed in IT and OT systems used by the US Coast Guard:
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-00708/p-1047 <https:// www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-00708/p-1047>
I’m doing a presentation to the US NASA and the US Department of Energy (DOE) on March 21 on this very topic of SCITT Trust Registries to identify trustworthy products that have passed a risk assessment and may be installed in IT and OT systems.
Trustworthiness of a product will be based on NIST SCRM best practices contained in CISA’s Secure Software Acquisition Guide,https:// cisa.gov/sag <https://cisa.gov/sag>
Am happy to share my March 21 slides with any that request them.
Thanks,
Dick Brooks
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