cloudflare / cloudflare/binary-install
Use checksums to verify integrity of the downloads
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 48
- Forks
- 23
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
On Discord somebody mentioned that they won't use wasm-pack because it is insecure, because it is downloading a foreign URL without using a checksum to verify the integrity.
I agree with them, I think for security it's important to verify checksums on all downloaded binaries.
So first this will have to be added to binary-install, and then wasm-pack can be changed to use the checksums.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by inspecting binary-install's download path and how wasm-pack consumes it; the issue does not name specific files or tests. Trace every downloaded binary and determine how checksums can be supplied and verified, then confirm that wasm-pack uses the protected path for its downloads.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, wasm
- Domain
- security, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100