Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

2024-04-02 Thread Larry Doolittle
Friends - On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 05:21:40AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > It is documented that auto-generated Github tarballs for the same tag > and with the same commit ID downloaded at different times might have > different checksums. I've run into this statement before. It's annoyingly

Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

2024-04-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 02:31:11AM +0200, kpcyrd wrote: >... > I figured out a somewhat straight-forward way to check if a given `git > archive` output is cryptographically claimed to be the source input of a > given binary package in either Arch Linux or Debian (or both). For Debian the proper

New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

2024-04-02 Thread kpcyrd
Hello, I'm going to keep this short, I've been writing a lot of text recently (which is quite exhausting, on top of my dayjob and all the code I wrote today afterwards. Apologies if you're still waiting for a reply in one of the other threads). I figured out a somewhat straight-forward way

Re: Arch Linux minimal container userland 100% reproducible - now what?

2024-04-02 Thread John Gilmore
James Addison wrote that local storage can contain errors. I agree. > My guess is that we could get into near-unsolvable philosophical territory > along this path, but I think it's worth being skeptical of the notions that > local-storage is always trustworthy and that the network should always

Re: Two questions about build-path reproducibility in Debian

2024-04-02 Thread Chris Lamb
James Addison wrote: > None of the remaining thirty-or-so (and in fact, none of the 66 updated so > far) > are usertagged both 'buildpath' and 'toolchain'. > > I would say that a few of them _are_ 'toolchain packages' -- mono, > binutils-dev > and a few others -- but for these bugs the

Re: Arch Linux minimal container userland 100% reproducible - now what?

2024-04-02 Thread James Addison via rb-general
Hi John, On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 at 19:29, John Gilmore wrote: > > kpcyrd wrote: > > 1) There's currently no way to tell if a package can be built offline > > (without trying yourself). > > Packages that can't be built offline are not reproducible, by > definition. They depend on outside events

Re: Two questions about build-path reproducibility in Debian

2024-04-02 Thread James Addison via rb-general
Thanks, Chris, On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 at 13:01, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Hi James, > > > Approximately thirty are still set to other severity levels, and I plan to > > update those with the following adjusted messaging […] > > Looks good to me. :) > > Completely out of interest, are any of those 30