Florian, All of the US Government materials I refer to are available openly to the public: https://cisa.gov/sag https://www.nasa.gov/secure-software-development-self-attestation-resources-and-knowledge/ I’ve also posted my March 21, 2025 presentation to NASA/DOE online, which covers the government materials I refer to above: https://github.com/rjb4standards/Presentations/raw/refs/heads/master/20250321-SAG-CTR.pptx Information regarding the IETF SCITT trust registry concept is also available to the public: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-scitt-architecture/ From: Idelberger, Florian (IIWR) <florian.idelberger@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] FYI UK Government report on OSS trust - gaps Well you wrote of certain US gov’t initiatives for their own usage. I assume none of that is open or accessible based on what you wrote, whether for reading or writing. --
Dr. Florian Idelberger
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Zentrum für Angewandte Rechtswissenschaft (ZAR)
Institut für Informations- und Wirtschaftsrecht
Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 3, D-76131 Karlsruhe
E-Mail: florian.idelberger@xxxxxxx
KIT - Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und
nationales Forschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Free and open access to a Trust Registry for the public to query a “cybersecurity label” is a critical success factor to ensure that people are buying and using trustworthy products. Write access to the “Trust Registry” is closely guarded and monitored in order to ensure high integrity and maximum trust by the public. <image007.png> <image008.png> <image009.png> Active Member of the CISA Critical Manufacturing Sector, Sector Coordinating Council – A Public-Private Partnership Risk always exists, but trust must be earned and awarded.™ 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. --
Dr. Florian Idelberger
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Zentrum für Angewandte Rechtswissenschaft (ZAR)
Institut für Informations- und Wirtschaftsrecht
Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 3, D-76131 Karlsruhe
E-Mail: florian.idelberger@xxxxxxx
KIT - Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und
nationales Forschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft A UK Government report on open source software contains some very specific findings and recommendation to establish trustworthiness in open source software: 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). Outside of academic papers, trustworthiness wasn’t mentioned in any of the best 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: 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 Am happy to share my March 21 slides with any that request them. <image007.png> <image008.png> <image009.png> Active Member of the CISA Critical Manufacturing Sector, Sector Coordinating Council – A Public-Private Partnership Risk always exists, but trust must be earned and awarded.™
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