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Re: Help! I messed up guix-past
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zimoun |
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Re: Help! I messed up guix-past |
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Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:00:36 +0200 |
Hi,
On sam., 10 sept. 2022 at 16:39, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>> From my point of view, authentication of guix-past adds more burden than
>> it solves concrete issues of real problem.
>>
>> I suggest to just drop the authentication for this channel.
>
> I disagree.
Well, if we disagree here then it is rare enough to be notified. Or
maybe we miscommunicate. :-)
> Channels are an easy way to get a lot of people to run hostile code.
> Authentication ensures that the authors of Guix Past don’t sneak in bad
> code that is then evaluated by Guix — no matter if you install packages
> from Guix Past or not.
I was meaning ’signed commit’ as authentication.
I do not see how signed commits prevent hostile code; because this
hostile code must be pushed to the Gitlab instance in the first place.
Signed commit acts as “double-authentication” for authenticating the
person responsible of the commit. The attacker needs to control two
“channels“ of “communication”: the remote Git server and the local GPG
thing.
I agree signed commits is necessary for Guix itself or else but I am not
convinced of its interest for guix-past.
As shown elsewhere in the thread, just a channel configuration where the
introduction is not noticed and then “guix pull” is happy.
And I am not convinced that the regular scientists really take care
about these subtleties of GPG. Obviously, that’s not an argument. ;-)
I restate that signed commits (authentication) add more burden for the
channel guix-past than it solves concrete issues.
Maybe we do not share the same point of view of this topic. :-)
Cheers,
simon
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, (continued)
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/09/11
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Efraim Flashner, 2022/09/11
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Konrad Hinsen, 2022/09/12
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/09/12
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Konrad Hinsen, 2022/09/13
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/09/13
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Konrad Hinsen, 2022/09/14
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Ludovic Courtès, 2022/09/10
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, zimoun, 2022/09/10
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/09/10
- Re: Help! I messed up guix-past,
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Re: Help! I messed up guix-past, Julien Lepiller, 2022/09/09