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Re:Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify and apt-sigstore by a_vanderbilt on Sunday April 16, 2023 @07:28PM (#35595133)
How would you reproduce the build on systems that are not capable of performing the build due to hardware or practical constraints? If I am obtaining closed-source packages, how do I reproduce those builds? The benefit of signing is adjacent, but not the same as the need to confirm the output of the build process.
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Re:Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify and apt-sigstore by bombolo on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:52AM (#35597242)
If you're getting closed source, certainly debian has nothing to do with it and you have to take issue with your distributor?
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Re:Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify and apt-sigstore by a_vanderbilt on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:46PM (#35604055)
Debian defines the package format and fosters the culture around that format. Third-parties who wish to distribute software via Debian packages have to use the standard that Debian has decided upon. I am taking up the issue with Debian, as the distributor of the Debian package format.
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Re:Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify and apt-sigstore by bombolo on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:38PM (#35606968)
Ok.

But what kind of magic signature do you want to know that the code you're running matches the source, if the software is closed source and you have no access to the source?

Your requirement makes no sense. Are you a product manager? :D

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Re:Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify and apt-sigstore by a_vanderbilt on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:22PM (#35609598)
Re-read my initial reply to the thread. It is stated.
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Re:Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify and apt-sigstore by bombolo on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:42AM (#35610364)
gpg can be used to sign a single file, if for any reason you download a single .deb instead of using a repository.

If your supplier doesn't sign them… take it with them?

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