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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What you just described cannot be done.

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was curious and, yeah, it seems like docker hub not requiring signature means many popular publishers don’t bother to sign. But that’s not to say it can’t be done. For example: github.com/sigstore/cosign

    Today, cosign has been tested and works against […] Docker Hub

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re making big claims on security here, like “cannot be done,” and each time you do I feel like we’re talking past each other a bit. I never claimed you can verify that the person who pushed the container had access to a private key file. I claimed you can verify the security of a container, specifically by auditing it and reviewing the publisher’s online presence. Best practices. Don’t upgrade right away, and pin digests to those which can be trusted.

    When you pin a digest, you’re not going to get a container some malicious agent force pushed after the fact. You pinned the download to an immutable digest, so hot-swapping the container is out the window. What, as I understand, you’re concerned with is the scenario that a malicious actor (1) compromised the registry login beforehand, (2) you pinned the digest after hand, and (3) the attack is unnoticed by you and everyone else.

    I’m trying to figure out under what conditions this would actually occur, and thus justifies the claim that docker pull is insecure. In a work setting, I only see this being an issue if the process to test/upgrade existing ones is already an insecure process.

    Can you help me understand why I should believe that, even with best practices in place, Dockers own insecurities are unacceptable? Docker is used everywhere and I’m reluctant to believe everyone just doesn’t care about an unmanageable attack vector.

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    • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude, just search the github for “docker content trust” and you can read all the issues. I’m not making big claims that aren’t known already by the devs

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      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Again we’re talking past each other. I’m sure those results are available and I’m aware docker doesn’t verify signatures automatically, but I’m asking how that necessarily makes docker insecure in spite of best practices being implemented. It’s about pinning yourself to trusted digests and having a verification process (like time) before updates. Why would you need authorship verification in that case? If there’s a good answer to that, I’d consider alternatives too. I’m just saying I don’t think it’s inherently insecure over this, and at face value I wouldn’t call docker insecure over this. It boils back down to the classic: don’t download untrusted software.

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