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From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix and remote trust
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:55:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h825wkj6.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eex9r5ay.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>

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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> I am wondering whether Guix can still provide more guarantees than
> non-functional package managers / OS when running on a remote machine
> (controlled by an non-trusted third-party) with, say, SSH root access.
>
> For instance, can we somehow have the guarantee that the remote machine
> is the Guix we installed and hasn't been tampered with?
>
> I'm not sure whether I'm asking something trivial or not.  If the
> latter, I'd be happy to read more literature about it.
>
> What do you people know on the topic?

This sounds like guix gc --verify=contents. Debian has a similar feature
I think, with dpkg --verify.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-12 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-12 14:23 Guix and remote trust Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-12 16:55 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2019-12-13  8:48   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 11:05     ` zimoun
2019-12-13 12:24       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 12:50         ` zimoun
2019-12-13 13:05           ` Josh Marshall
2019-12-13 13:22             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 13:18           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 13:38             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 15:26               ` zimoun

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