How to bootstrap and verify sbt plugins?

[graingert]

There should be a tutorial on how to download and verify sbt-pgp and another other build plugins before sbt runs (and a malicious plugin stops sbt-pgp from working)

[jsuereth]

Good question. I think it may be (barely) possible for us to do that. We would actually need to include ourselves VERY EARLY in the sbt load process, and even then we wouldn't be guaranteed to catch everything....

Cc. @eed3si9n

[eed3si9n]

Imagine all the people living life in peace (using sbt-pgp as part of mothership instead of a plugin).

[graingert]

I imagine this being a tar.gz that directly patches sbt or is integrated
directly.
On 12 May 2016 8:19 pm, "Josh Suereth" notifications@github.com wrote:

Good question. I think it may be (barely) possible for us to do that.
We would actually need to include ourselves VERY EARLY in the sbt load
process, and even then we wouldn't be guaranteed to catch everything....

Cc. @eed3si9n https://github.com/eed3si9n

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[graingert]

What's sbt mothership?
On 12 May 2016 8:42 pm, "Thomas Grainger" tagrain@gmail.com wrote:

I imagine this being a tar.gz that directly patches sbt or is integrated
directly.
On 12 May 2016 8:19 pm, "Josh Suereth" notifications@github.com wrote:

Good question. I think it may be (barely) possible for us to do that.
We would actually need to include ourselves VERY EARLY in the sbt load
process, and even then we wouldn't be guaranteed to catch everything....

Cc. @eed3si9n https://github.com/eed3si9n

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[eed3si9n]

It's a term I use sometimes to refer to sbt, as opposed to the plugins.
I've been an advocate for that for a while. See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/simple-build-tool/1Zq1Xa5_Ge4/Fikn3qJDVDQJ for example.

[graingert]

The signature verification parts of sbt-pgp only make sense if they can
verify plugins before they are loaded and as such cannot work without being
patched into sbt or included in 'mothership'
On 12 May 2016 8:55 pm, "eugene yokota" notifications@github.com wrote:

It's a term I use sometimes to refer to sbt, as opposed to the plugins.
I've been an advocate for that for a while. See
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/simple-build-tool/1Zq1Xa5_Ge4/Fikn3qJDVDQJ
for example.

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[graingert]

You could create a new addSbtPlugin function eg addSbtPlugin(plugin:
Plugin, pgp: PgpFingerPrint)

That does the validation.

But you would still need to patch sbt before the plugins.sbt loaded.

Thomas Grainger

On 12 May 2016 at 21:05, Thomas Grainger tagrain@gmail.com wrote:

The signature verification parts of sbt-pgp only make sense if they can
verify plugins before they are loaded and as such cannot work without being
patched into sbt or included in 'mothership'
On 12 May 2016 8:55 pm, "eugene yokota" notifications@github.com wrote:

It's a term I use sometimes to refer to sbt, as opposed to the plugins.
I've been an advocate for that for a while. See
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/simple-build-tool/1Zq1Xa5_Ge4/Fikn3qJDVDQJ
for example.

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[graingert]

I guess you could import sbt-pgp after manually adding it to your classpath.

Thomas Grainger

On 12 May 2016 at 22:08, Thomas Grainger tagrain@gmail.com wrote:

You could create a new addSbtPlugin function eg addSbtPlugin(plugin:
Plugin, pgp: PgpFingerPrint)

That does the validation.

But you would still need to patch sbt before the plugins.sbt loaded.

Thomas Grainger

On 12 May 2016 at 21:05, Thomas Grainger tagrain@gmail.com wrote:

The signature verification parts of sbt-pgp only make sense if they can
verify plugins before they are loaded and as such cannot work without being
patched into sbt or included in 'mothership'
On 12 May 2016 8:55 pm, "eugene yokota" notifications@github.com wrote:

It's a term I use sometimes to refer to sbt, as opposed to the plugins.
I've been an advocate for that for a while. See
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/simple-build-tool/1Zq1Xa5_Ge4/Fikn3qJDVDQJ
for example.

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