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Research ways to support verifying the PEP 740 digital attestations early

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#2,080 opened on Apr 26, 2024

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The upstream is moving forward now — https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/issues/15871 — so should pip-tools. I don't yet know what it'll look like here but we need to watch for the opportunities to integrate a preliminary support for such security-related features.

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Research direction
Investigate upstream warehouse issue #15871 and PEP 740 to understand the attestation mechanism. Explore how pip tools can integrate verification of digital attestations for packages, possibly by adding a command line flag or configuration option to verify attestations during dependency resolution.
Tech stack
python
Domain
securitybackend
Issue type
Research
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Needs investigation
Prerequisites
Pythonpip toolsunderstanding of PEP 740
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40