rust-lang / rust-lang/rustup

Sign and validate signatures of rustup-setup

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Description

We need to sign rustup-setup and validate them on self-update. Probably we can create a new subkey of the existing signing key and give the secrets to travis and appveyor.

This should use the same crypto as we use for rust builds.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the referenced rust-build signing issue (#241) and the self-update path, then identify how Travis and AppVeyor currently produce rustup-setup artifacts. Done means rustup-setup artifacts are signed and self-update validates those signatures using the same cryptography as Rust builds.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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