Feb 23, 2023

Written by Hayden Blauzvern

Cosign 2.0 Released!

Cosign 2.0 has arrived! Cosign 2.0 follows Sigstore’s General Availability launch, which offers production grade stable services for artifact signing and verification. Cosign’s most significant change is to no longer require COSIGN_EXPERIMENTAL=1, since the Sigstore services are now stable! By default, Cosign will fetch an identity-based certificate from Fulcio when a signing key is not provided, and upload the signature and signing key to Rekor to provide transparency. The following is the list of breaking changes:

Tags:  sigstore ,  cosign ,  security ,  opensource

Feb 10, 2023

Written by Mathieu Benoit

Cosign and Policy-controller with GKE, Artifact Registry and KMS

As soon as I came back from KubeCon NA 2022, my first ever in-person KubeCon, I felt re-energized. What a community, full of people eager to share knowledge and expertise with each others, so inspiring. I mostly attended sessions about security best practices for containers and Kubernetes (that’s what excites me these days!). Secure Software Supply Chain (S3C) was almost mentioned everywhere, for good reasons. Sigstore as a new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software, got its first own SigstoreCon as co-located event and hit the General Availability (GA) milestone.

Tags:  cosign ,  sigstore ,  security ,  kubernetes ,  kms

Feb 4, 2023

Written by Sigstore

Towards Easier, More Secure Signature Technology for the Java Ecosystem with Sigstore

In October 2022, the Sigstore project announced the General Availability of its free software signing service giving open source communities access to production-grade services for artifact signing and verification. As the project matures, so do the language client integrations that are actively being developed. In January 2023, sigstore-python announced the 1.0 version of Sigstore for Python. The Java community has always taken a mature approach to security. So it should come as no surprise that there is plenty of activity towards integrating Sigstore into the existing ecosystem and offering first-class support for software signing and verification with Sigstore.

Tags:  sigstore ,  java ,  gradle ,  maven

Feb 1, 2023

Written by Sigstore

Sigstore January Roundup

This month, we are thrilled to have announced the 1.0 release of sigstore-python. This project started a year ago to provide a Sigstore-compatible client similar to cosign, but built entirely with Python and easily adoptable by the Python ecosystem. A big thank you to all the contributors and maintainers for making it to 1.0! Read more Latest Blog Posts Thank you to Andrew, Felix and Zachary for contributing the following blog posts this month.

Tags:  sigstore ,  security ,  softwaresupplychain ,  supplychainsecurity ,  update

Jan 24, 2023

Written by Felix Wolff

A Guide to Running Sigstore Locally

Co-authored with Andrew Block A key concept in Sigstore is its availability. Anyone can leverage the hosted tooling to sign, publish and verify assets and incorporate it into their security processes. In a corporate context with private repositories and private artifacts as well as restricted access to external resources, it must be questioned whether it makes sense to use the public Sigstore deployment. Sensitive information might be exposed. Given the principles of the Sigstore architecture, it cannot be erased or fenced off.

Tags:  sigstore ,  deployment ,  helm