Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave…

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

  •  itchy_lizard   ( @itchy_lizard@feddit.it ) English
    1•1 year ago

    I believe Flatpak does.

    Flatpak does not authenticate files that it downloads. Please stop spreading misinformation that flatpak is secure. It’s not.

    If the flatpak (flathub?) repo was compromised and started serving malicious packages, the client would happily download & install them because it doesn’t have any cryptographic authenticity checks.

    APT and dpkg don’t do that

    Apt does verify the authenticity of everything it downloads (by default) using PGP signatures on SHA256SUMS manifest files. This provides cryptographic authenticity of everything it downloads. Flatpak doesn’t do this.

    Again, this is clearly documented here https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

      •  itchy_lizard   ( @itchy_lizard@feddit.it ) English
        3•1 year ago

        I’m talking about the end-user securely downloading packages from the repo, not how the package maintainer obtains the software upstream.

        How a package maintainer obtains the software from the source is dynamic and depends on the package. Ideally those releases are signed by the developer. In any case, if the package is poisoned when grabbing the source, it’s much easier for the community to detect than a targeted MITM attack on a client obtaining it from the repo.

        I can say that I do maintain a software project that’s in the repo, and we do sign it with our PGP release key. Our Debian package maintainer does verify its authenticity by checking the release’s signature. So the authenticity is checked both at the source and when downloading the package.