Re: K of N trust in substitutes (related to reproducible builds)

[Christopher Baines]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> 3: http://theworld.com/~cme/spki.txt
>>
>> Using the above ACL, you'd trust a substitute for a path with a specific
>> hash if you can find 2 narinfos for that path and hash if they're signed
>> with keys in that entry. Multiple entries would still be supported, and
>> you wouldn't need to specify the k-of-n bit if you don't want to.
>>
>> I'm not quite sure how expressive this is, or if there are some policies
>> that would be good to support that either can't be expressed, or can't
>> be expressed easily. There's probably other approaches, and how to
>> support trusting substitutes is an important part to consider.
>
> I would be tempted to not bake it into /etc/guix/acl.  You would still
> authorize all the servers, but instead of choosing a policy that accepts
> anything signed by one of them, as is currently the case, you would
> choose a policy that only accepts something signed by two of them.
>
> The policy would be implemented in (guix scripts substitute).  I haven’t
> put much thought into it but it could be something akin to
> ‘lookup-narinfos/diverse’, roughly.
>
> Thoughts?

I think that could work, do you have any suggestions on how that "two"
would be configured? I guess it could be a boolean on/off, but it would
be probably more extensible to just allow providing a minimum number of
substitiute servers to agree.

Thanks,

Chris

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