Re: CAN to CVE: changing changelogs?
* Thijs Kinkhorst:
>> You could change them retroactively (with a little note that you did so),
>> but it's not strictly necessary, as MITRE will continue to provide referrals
>> from CAN-based entries to CVE-based entries.
>
> Wouldn't one of the goals of the change to just one name instead of two
> per issue be to facilitate things like googling, grepping and other
> searching on CVE id's?
It's Google's job to improve their search engine, not ours.
> Then it would make sense to unify the names as widely as possibe.
You can't be sure that everybody makes the change, so you still have
to search for both variants anyway. I don't think it makes sense to
apply the conversion to anything which is not som sort of CVE-based
database.
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