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Security Team

In addition to community-sourced developments, NixOS has a dedicated security team. If the above sources are not enough to answer your question, please reach out to a member of the team listed below.

Security Disclosures

To privately report a security issue with NixOS, Nix, and its ecosystem, please email a member of the NixOS Security Team and we will ensure the issue is handled. Our responses will be signed with our GPG keys.

Sources of Security Information

Security is a priority for the NixOS community. A variety of channels are used to coordinate development in this vein. Three of the main modes of communication about NixOS security are:

The issues tagged "Security" on GitHub/NixOS
The #nixos-security IRC channel on FreeNode
The NixOS security discourse