package-analysis
rfcs
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706 | 45 | |
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9.2 | 4.6 | |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
package-analysis
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Is my email safe with services like anonaddy?
You can try out this thing called Package Analysis by OSSF. It's obviously not a catch-all by any means, but it can help identify hidden malicious software in open source packages.
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Sigstore
I agree. There are projects such as https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis and https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner that do behavior analysis. Disclaimer: I’m maintainer of the second one.
rfcs
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Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler
I can give a limited answer based on my own day-to-day work. I work in Ruby Dependency Security, which is the team who are most involved in helping out with rubygems.org and RubyGems work. Our biggest effort lately has been about rolling out MFA requirements for owners of top-most-downloaded gems. What I'd like to do afterwards is focus on gem signing using sigstore, which would make it a "one click" experience for authors. We did some work on it earlier this year[0] but chose to focus on MFA as our first big push. We also aim to devote a substantial fraction of our time to chopping wood and carrying water: looking at honeybadger exception reports, etc.
In terms of the long run there's a whole bunch that can be done to continuously harden every aspect of the Ruby supply chain. One thing we've been involved in founding is the OpenSSF Securing Software Repos working group[1], which has meant that RubyGems maintainers are now talking directly with folks from PyPI, npm, Maven Central, Cargo and others. We all face shared threats (eg, dependency confusion, resurrection attacks etc), so getting together to work collectively and share ideas has been super awesome.
[0] https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/37
[1] https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-software-repos
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Making popular Ruby packages more secure
That’s correct. If you’re a maintainer of a very popular gem, as of 15th August you’ll no longer be able to e.g. `gem push` if you haven’t enabled MFA on your RubyGems account. You will of course still be able to log in and enable it.
More details in the RFC: https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/blob/master/text/0007-mfa-r...
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NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter
> < 10% had useful 2FA enabled.
I expect this to change. NPM will roll out mandatory MFA for the most-downloaded packages[0] (RubyGems as well[1]). I expect this will rise to a 100% requirement at some point because Github's decision to require MFA by the end of 2023 will massively raise the waterline of folks who have the capability to MFA and experience with MFA.
[0] https://github.blog/2021-11-15-githubs-commitment-to-npm-eco...
[1] https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/issues/35
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Sigstore
The RFC trying to introduce sigstore for RubyGems is an interesting look at this in practice: https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/37
- RFC for Sigstore Rubygems Signing
- RFC: Proposal for new signing mechanism
- Require MFA for most-used gems [RubyGems RFC]
What are some alternatives?
hagrid-container - Hagrid as in, "keeper of keys". Verifying OpenPGP keyserver, written in Rust. OCI image
sigstore-website - Codebase for sigstore.dev
harden-runner - Network egress filtering and runtime security for GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
npm
enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
rubygems - Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.
wg-securing-software-repos - OpenSSF Working Group on Securing Software Repositories
warehouse - The Python Package Index
discussions - Soliciting ideas and feedback for community driven collaborative projects that help Node.
Babel (Formerly 6to5) - 🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
RubyGems - The Ruby community's gem hosting service.