hmk1 0.1.3

A package that is quite pointless

This is homework1 of CS-GY/UY 3943/9223 SUpply Chain Secrity

set-up:

This entire project is based on the sigstore cosign tools on linux:

curl -O -L "https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/releases/latest/download/cosign-linux-amd64"
sudo mv cosign-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/cosign
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cosign

If you have go or homebrew it would be easier.

Signing an artifact:

1. Sign an artifact using cosign tool with your identity using:

    cosign sign-blob <file> --bundle cosign.bundle

You can also refer to the official cosign tutorial

After signing an artifact:

commands:

python3 main.py -c
python3 main.py --inclusion <artifact> 
  # (the last argument can be changed to anything you signed)
python3 main.py --consistency

Important notes:

• This repo runs a Trufflehog command to scan each latest commit attempt to prevent secret leak, however, the local repo on linux environment resulted in likely non-functional pre-commit config. The Docker image of Trufflehog does not support laetst one- commit scan. For Mac environment, modify pre-commit-config.yaml, line 7, to:

  entry: bash -c 'trufflehog git file://. --since-commit HEAD --no-verification --fail --max-depth=1'
  

notes

The point of this homework is the know-how of cosign tools, i particular the rekor APIs

• the "security" is implemented as a merkle tree, and in this homework I compare two nodes in the tree: the latest checkpoint provided by Rekor that is just simply literally the latest checkpoint and the checkpoint of my own signed artifact which is retrievable via api call using the log index generated when I signed the artifact.

• somehow against my simple understanding of the merkle tree implementation, the "treeSize" filed goes backward: If you check the log index 1 on Rekor, the tree size is huge (4163431) while by the point I did this homework and signed a dummy, the size is only 1110000+ ~ish, I wonder what happens when number reaches 0.

• prof explained in class that this implementation is lighter-weight than actual blockchain but I don't quite see why or how.

reference materials:

• Template Code from class TA
• Rekor API Spec