Re: Reproducible Builds Summit 2022

[Christopher Baines]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Really cool!  Thank you for the heads-up.
>
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2022 at 15:44, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:
>
>>                  We should also continue working on implementing a
>> change in the ACL to allow requiring a K of N agreement between
>> different substitute servers that a build is correct^2.
>
> I am not a specialist about consensus algorithm so maybe I am totally
> out of topic.  This K-of-N agreement looks like a Proof of Stake [1].

I think it's useful to keep this simple.

Going back to [1], currently we only support users trusting substitutes
if they're signed by any key they trust.

I'd like to see support for more complex policies, like only trusting
substitutes if there's a valid signature from two substitute servers
(two different keys). So trusting substitutes that have been built by
two substitute servers, and they've come to the same result.


1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-06/msg00179.html

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