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Re:Making popular Ruby packages more secure by klysm on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:26PM (#31734113)
Yeah but what trust system are you going to use for that? I don’t see how anything at scale buys you too much
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Re:Making popular Ruby packages more secure by pabs3 on Saturday June 18, 2022 @08:00AM (#31789093)
The Linux distros use OpenPGP/X.509 keys stored on HSMs for their archive security, and a set of per-maintainer keys that are used to verify changes to the archive. RubyGems/Cargo/etc could use something like that.
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