manual: document ways of obtaining source hashes #53785
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| This works well when you've upgraded existing package version and want to | ||
| find out new hash, but is useless if package doesn't have top-level |
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It's not so much a question of top-level attribute, as of being accessible via an attribute path.
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| <title>Obtaining hashes securely</title> |
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Maybe note that the threat model discussed here is MITM close to the developer's network?
Whatever you do, MITM close to the server side (or a succesful server intruder) can even get a «valid» certificate via DV…
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Technically speaking, there is a one more crazy-ish way of obtaining hashes that I sometimes use: fake hashes + Ctrl-c + copy the URL from the progress output + This way I do get the exact URL for free, but TLS is checked and the file is only downloaded once. |
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By the way, does git verify correctness of revision hashes by default? Does |
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| A little nuance is that <literal>nix-prefetch-*</literal> tools produce | ||
| hash encoded with <literal>base32</literal>, but upstream usually provides | ||
| hexadecimal (<literal>base16</literal>) encoding. Fetchers understand both | ||
| formats. Nixpkgs doesn't stadartize on any one format. |
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| formats. Nixpkgs doesn't stadartize on any one format. | |
| formats. Nixpkgs does not standardize on any one format. |
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... and security nuances.
Related: #53754
cc @7c6f434c @grahamc