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Explain why we prefer attestations over ACLs

Open MarkLodato opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

SLSA implicitly prefers provenance attestations instead of carefully configured ACLs. We should explain why. Something like:

Theoretically one could configure ACLs properly such that a CI/CD system only pulls from the proper source, signing keys to only allow access to the CI/CD system, etc. In practice, that is almost impossible to get right and keep right. There are often over-provisioning, or confused deputy problems, or mistakes.

For these reasons, we prefer attestations of the properties we want to verify.

MarkLodato avatar Jul 21 '21 20:07 MarkLodato