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Re: “Building a Secure Software Supply Chain with GNU Guix”


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: “Building a Secure Software Supply Chain with GNU Guix”
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 09:44:19 +0200
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Hi,

bokr@bokr.com skribis:

> I think IWBN to have some kind of trust code come with that git output,
> like gpg's 1-5 but indicating how well the committer/signer trusts
> that using the code will *not* cause a problem.
>
> I would like it if every commit had to have a code like that.

I very much agree with what zimoun wrote: it’s very hard to assess the
security implications of a Guix commit (especially a commit that adds,
say, a 100K lines-of-code package), and we shouldn’t ask too much of
packagers.

Ludo’.



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