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Where is the web of trust that lets me cryptographically verify that my install.sh file was published by some PhD student in the Netherlands? And unless I trust
by oconnore 10y ago
Where is the web of trust that lets me cryptographically verify that my install.sh file was published by some PhD student in the Netherlands? And unless I trust the https server, how do I know which PhD student in the Netherlands I'm supposed to trust?
If this were software that I had to install multiple times (say there are several updates a year), it might make sense to implement TOFU with a published GPG key -- each successive update would use the same key I imported the first time. However, the nix installer installs a package manager which is self updating, and therefore implements TOFU itself.