rekor vs sigstore-the-hard-way

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rekor		sigstore-the-hard-way
	Project
29	Mentions	2
832	Stars	109
1.8%	Growth	0.9%
9.7	Activity	4.2
9 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Go	Language
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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rekor

Posts with mentions or reviews of rekor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-10.

Obtainium – Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023

There could be asset hashes in sigstore: https://sigstore.dev/
Is there a good way to run native mobile app GUI tests with GitHub Actions?
A VM/container emulator like anbox, waydroid, (or all of ChromeOS Flex in KVM) in a GitHub Action is probably enough to run GUI tests?
"Build your own SLSA 3+ provenance builder on GitHub Actions"
Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jul 2023
PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless
1 project | /r/programming | 22 May 2023

I expect something like https://sigstore.dev
An Overview of Kubernetes Security Projects at KubeCon Europe 2023
17 projects | dev.to | 22 May 2023

sigstore is another suite of tools that focuses on attestation and provenance. Within the suite are two tools I heard mentioned a few times at KubeCon: Cosign and Rekor.
50% new NPM packages are spam
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2023
Spin 1.0 — The Developer Tool for Serverless WebAssembly
17 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2023

Since we can distribute Spin applications using popular registry services, we can also take advantage of ecosystem tools such as Sigstore and Cosign, which address the software supply chain issue by signing and verifying applications using Sigstore's new keyless signatures (using OIDC identity tokens from providers such as GitHub).
Build and sign application containers
3 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2023

With containers being the heart of Cloud Native application development, it has become even more critical to ensure the integrity of the containers. One of the ways to do this to sign and verify the container images.sigstore is a open source project that empowers software developers to securely sign the container images.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built?
33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2022

https://sigstore.dev - although its really not true to say I built it. I started it off, but very quickly smarter folks then me jumped on board and really took it to all sorts of new directions.
Container Images for the Cloud Native Era
3 projects | dev.to | 22 Sep 2022

Powered by Wolfi, Chainguard Images are a suite of distroless images that consolidate the base features of the Wolfi undistro into end-user container images that can be integrated into existing workflows. Chainguard Images are fully declarative and reproducible, and include SBOMs that cover all image dependencies. In addition, Chainguard Images are signed via Sigstore, which attests the provenance of all artifacts. All images and corresponding signatures, as well as their SBOMs, are hosted in Chainguard's OCI registry cgr.dev.
I am Mikko Hypponen, a global infosec expert! Ask me anything.
2 projects | /r/IAmA | 27 Aug 2022

What's your thoughts on the sigstore project from the linux foundation?

sigstore-the-hard-way

Posts with mentions or reviews of sigstore-the-hard-way. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-02.

Sigstore the Hard Way
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2022
Signing Software The Easy Way with Sigstore and Cosign
3 projects | dev.to | 2 Sep 2021

Also, if you want to dig even deeper, you can checkout "sigstore the hard way", which is a guide to setting everything up, for scratch - including fulcio CA and rekor transparency log server.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rekor and sigstore-the-hard-way you can also consider the following projects:

fulcio - Sigstore OIDC PKI

cosign - Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries

cosign-keyless-admission-webhook - Kubernetes admission webhook that uses cosign verify to check the subject and issuer of the image matches what you expect

kubeclarity - KubeClarity is a tool for detection and management of Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) and vulnerabilities of container images and filesystems

cosign-installer - Cosign Github Action

Covenant - Covenant is a collaborative .NET C2 framework for red teamers.

gitsign - Keyless Git signing using Sigstore

MEMZ - A trojan made for Danooct1's User Made Malware Series.

connaisseur - An admission controller that integrates Container Image Signature Verification into a Kubernetes cluster

cargo-crev - A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo (Rust) package manager.

sigstore-rs - An experimental Rust crate for sigstore