Re: Case against Firefox in FESCo

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> On 01/07/2016 08:41 AM, Martin Stransky wrote:
>> On 01/07/2016 02:29 PM, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
>>> ESR will only delay the problem.
>>>
>>> Can the Fedora build add a secodary key to accept signed
>>> extensions?
>>
>> Is it possible to use Mozilla API to sign our extensions?
>>
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Distribution
>> http://olympia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/api/signing.html
>>
>
> No, it is not. The primary reason being that Koji builds intentionally
> have no network access. This is to ensure that all builds are
> reproducible (since if they relied upon external network resources,
> the output from the same input could be different if it was rebuilt at
> a different time). Additionally it's to ensure that some third-party
> service isn't inserting unexpected code into the output, thereby
> resulting in us shipping a binary that doesn't match the sources.

And for Fedora we'd need to provide a mechanism within koji to
actually sign the built work. We already have infrastructure to do
this for the kernel/grub and friends but I'm not sure how much would
it would take to extend that to other formats.

Peter
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