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#22883 Trustable "guix pull"

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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
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Hello,

Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> skribis:

> But there doesn't seem to be any way to secure a git repository against
> a second-preimage attack.

That’s by large beyond the scope of this discussion.  :-)

I think all we want is to allow someone who gets a checkout of Guix to
authenticate the source code, i.e., to make sure it was committed by one
of these awesome Guix hackers and not by Mr. Evildoer.

Ludo’.




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