Name: The Challenges of Building a Sigstore Implementation from Scratch - Samuel Giddins, Ruby Central
Start: 2024-11-12T12:10:00-0700
End: 2024-11-12T12:40:00-0700

November 12, 2024 | Salt Lake City, Utah
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Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:40pm MST

Alpine

Sigstore Ruby now exists. So exciting! But bringing it to life was a challenge, particularly due to the goal of being able to ship it as a part of Ruby itself. Building a sigstore implementation atop only the standard library required writing a TUF client, implementing custom x509 handling, and abstracting over all the supported key types, among other challenges. This talk will explore those challenges, and dive into _why_ a sigstore implementation proves to be such an undertaking, hopefully inspiring some simplification for the next poor soul who attempts to build one from scratch.

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Samuel Giddins

Security Engineer in Residence, Ruby Central

Samuel is the Security Engineer in Residence at Ruby Central, leading security efforts across RubyGems and RubyGems.org by day (and sometimes by night, CVEs never sleep). He's been working on Ruby tooling for the past decade, and has shipped hundreds of bugs across RubyGems & Bun... Read More →

Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:40pm MST
Alpine

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SigstoreCon Supply Chain Day 2024

Samuel Giddins

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