Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ticking time bomb

The Python and Ruby communities are actively working on improving the security of their packaging infrastructure. I haven't paid close attention to any of the efforts so far, but anyone working on cabal/hackage security should probably take a peek. I lurk on Python's catalog-sig list and here's the interesting bits I've noticed from the past few weeks: [Catalog-sig] [Draft] Package signing and verification process http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2013-February/004832.html [Catalog-sig] [DRAFT] Proposal for fixing PyPI/pip security http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2013-February/004994.html Python PyPi Security Working Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e3g1v8INHjHsUJ-Q0odQOO8s91KMAbqLQyqj20CS... Rubygems Threat Model: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2013-February/005099.html https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fobWhPRqB4_JftFWh6iTWClUo_SPBnxqbBTdAvbb... TUF: The Update Framework https://www.updateframework.com/ On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Christopher Done wrote:

Hey dude, it looks like we made the same project yesterday:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/17njda/proposal_a_trivial_cabal_pac...

Yours is nice as it doesn't depend on GPG. Although that could be a nice thing because GPG manages keys. Dunno.

Another diff is that mine puts the .sig inside the .tar.gz, yours puts it separate.

=)

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On 01/30/2013 07:27 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

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https://status.heroku.com/incidents/489

Unsigned Hackage packages are a ticking time bomb.

I agree this is terrible, I've started working on this, but this is quite a bit of work and other priorities always pop up.

https://github.com/vincenthz/cabal https://github.com/vincenthz/cabal-signature

My current implementation generate a manifest during sdist'ing in cabal, and have cabal-signature called by cabal on the manifest to create a manifest.sign.

The main issue i'm facing is how to create a Web of Trust for doing all

On 31 January 2013 09:11, Vincent Hanquez wrote: the

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public verification bits.

-- Vincent

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