Closed otkd closed 2 weeks ago
My $.02: "Whitelist" was in the dictionary (e.g., see https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/whitelist). But while "allowlist" is it a lot of technical glossaries and is broadly used, I haven't yet found it in any prominent dictionary of the English language (of any variety). So, until it is--or if you can convince the Cambridge Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, etc. to add it--I think we should continue to write it out as 2 hyphenated words, e.g., "allow-list". (Same with "block-list" if you changed that to "blocklist".) Other than that, LGTM.
This perhaps would be a reasonble approach if all terminology used by OWASP would be in general purpose dictionaries, however given the intended audience this is unlikely to be the case.
"Allowlist" is for example recommended by:
"allowlist" is the NIST standard. Dictionaries be dammed. Let's go with allowlist.
Other dictionaries that support this:
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