Re: [DISCUSS] Build security

2014-07-30 Thread Kevin Sweeney
Checksum pinning allows us to mitigate the security issues without needing to run expensive mirroring infrastructure ourselves On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Jake Farrell wrote: > To me that brings up the question then why use any remote dist for > development at all if we are really concern

Re: [DISCUSS] Build security

2014-07-30 Thread Jake Farrell
To me that brings up the question then why use any remote dist for development at all if we are really concerned about this being an issue? Vendor everything (py, jar, js) in our 3rdparty dir and then we guarantee that each dependency we use has history on why it was added and who added it (dont th

Re: [DISCUSS] Build security

2014-07-30 Thread Kevin Sweeney
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Jake Farrell wrote: > +0 > > Aurora-620: Is this really a rampant issue causing jars to be widely > compromised, great blog post, but any documentation of this exploit > actually occurring. To me this seems like additions that are not needed > especially since mav

Re: [DISCUSS] Build security

2014-07-30 Thread Kevin Sweeney
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Jake Farrell wrote: > +0 > > Aurora-620: Is this really a rampant issue causing jars to be widely > compromised, great blog post, but any documentation of this exploit > actually occurring. To me this seems like additions that are not needed > especially since mav

Re: [DISCUSS] Build security

2014-07-30 Thread Bill Farner
FWIW the filing of the ticket was reactionary only to the availability of a solution, now of the scare (i've been twitchy about this for a long time). > Is this really a rampant issue causing jars to be widely compromised Why wait for a publicized attack? Since we know this presents a risk, w

Re: [DISCUSS] Build security

2014-07-30 Thread Jake Farrell
+0 Aurora-620: Is this really a rampant issue causing jars to be widely compromised, great blog post, but any documentation of this exploit actually occurring. To me this seems like additions that are not needed especially since maven central is going to ssl in the near future. Aurora-616: The gr

Re: [DISCUSS] Build security

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Chu-Carroll
+1 On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Kevin Sweeney wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently in the news there has been a lot of controversy regarding Maven > Central's lack of HTTPS support (without a donation for an access key which > isn't redistributable, see [1], [2], [3] for context). While Sonatype