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SECURITY.md

Security policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Report privately through GitHub Security Advisories, the Report a vulnerability button under the Security tab of this repository. Please do not open a public issue for a security report.

Include, where you can: the affected version or commit, what an attacker gains, the steps to reproduce, and whether you intend to disclose publicly and when.

What to expect

Stage Target
Acknowledgement of receipt 3 working days
Initial assessment, with a severity view 10 working days
Fix or documented mitigation for a confirmed high-severity issue 30 days
Public advisory at the fix, or at 90 days, whichever comes first

These are the targets of a single maintainer working outside professional hours, stated plainly rather than dressed up as a vendor SLA.

Scope

In scope: anything that makes a control fail open, a model admitted that should have been refused, a journal alteration that verification does not detect, an actuation that reaches the device without a policy decision, a stop channel that reports disengaged while the relay is open.

Out of scope, because they are documented design positions rather than defects:

  • No hardware root of trust. Signing keys sit in the clear on a Linux SBC. → ADR 0006
  • Tamper evidence, not tamper resistance. An attacker holding the device key with write access can rewrite the journal consistently; closing that needs an external witness for checkpoint roots. → ADR 0007
  • Truncation after the last checkpoint is undetectable from the file alone. Pinned deliberately by test_truncation_is_detected_only_against_a_checkpoint.

If you think one of those positions is wrong, open an issue, that is a design argument, not an advisory.

Not a conformity assessment

This repository demonstrates mechanisms and shows their cost. It certifies nothing under the AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, or any other regime, and nothing in it is legal advice.

There aren't any published security advisories