dsse

A specification for signing methods and formats used by Secure Systems Lab projects. (by secure-systems-lab)

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dsse reviews and mentions

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  • NPM Provenance Public Beta
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2023
  • What do you think about DSSE: Dead Simple Signing Envelope format?
    1 project | /r/crypto | 15 Apr 2023
  • Ditching OpenPGP, a new approach to signing APT repositories
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jun 2021
    I took a look at the design and think there are a few issues with the format as proposed.

    # The public key is stored with the signature.

    This should be stored separately. A public key found here is too tempting to use, rendering the signature worthless. Authenticating it would be OK, but low value. This is unauthenticated. A "key ID" should be used instead if the intention is to support lookups among multiple keys.

    # The algorithm is stored with the signature.

    This is slightly less bad than above, but still bad. Attacker-controlled algorithms have been used repeatedly in "downgrade" attacks. Agility is bad, but if you must support multiple algorithms, store this with the public key (somewhere else). Some info here: https://github.com/secure-systems-lab/dsse/issues/35

    I didn't look at the sub-key protocol in detail. The ephemeral key for every release is an interesting choice. The root key is "offline". But if it must be brought online to sign a new ephemeral key for every release anyway, you might as well just use it to sign the release itself.

    Using minisign/signify like OpenBSD does and keeping things very simple makes sense to me. The complexity designed into this system (sub-keys, multiple algorithms and signatures) starts to stretch the bounds to where TUF (https://theupdateframework.io/) might make sense. TUF is very complex and not worth it for most projects, but Debian is exactly what TUF is designed for.

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secure-systems-lab/dsse is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of dsse is Jupyter Notebook.


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