Re: K of N trust in substitutes (related to reproducible builds)

2020-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Christopher Baines skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >>> 3: http://theworld.com/~cme/spki.txt >>> >>> Using the above ACL, you'd trust a substitute for a path with a specific >>> hash if you can find 2 narinfos for that path and hash if they're signed >>> with keys in that entry. Multipl

Re: K of N trust in substitutes (related to reproducible builds)

2020-06-16 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> 3: http://theworld.com/~cme/spki.txt >> >> Using the above ACL, you'd trust a substitute for a path with a specific >> hash if you can find 2 narinfos for that path and hash if they're signed >> with keys in that entry. Multiple entries would still be supported, and >>

Re: K of N trust in substitutes (related to reproducible builds)

2020-06-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Christopher Baines skribis: > My feeling is that making some initial step forward in this area is > going to be tricky, care needs to be taken around the security and > backwards compatibility aspects. I've now got around to actually > thinking about potential ways to make parts of this happ

K of N trust in substitutes (related to reproducible builds)

2020-06-13 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, So, I've finally got around to actually looking at what code changes might be involved in changing how users of Guix substitutes trust which substitutes to use, and which not to use. This follows on from some of the build reproducibility metrics work that happened recently [1]. 1: https://li