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Security: btsouth/pkgs

SECURITY.md

Security

Report a problem privately through GitHub security advisories. Please do not open a public issue for anything that could put users at risk.

What protects you

  • Every package and the package list are signed with one key, fingerprint AA378A651D659C56BE5DB17B2F78D0FE524BB309. The installer trusts that exact fingerprint and sets SigLevel = Required, so pacman refuses anything that is unsigned or altered, whoever serves it.
  • The repository only carries the projects in packages.txt, taken from their published GitHub releases and checked against the release checksums. Projects marked attested must also carry a GitHub build attestation showing the project's own workflow built the package.
  • Before each change the publish workflow checks that the existing package list is still signed by the repository key. Every hour it checks that the installer, key and package lists being served match this repository.
  • The site redirects plain HTTP to HTTPS.

What it does not protect against

  • The installer itself is fetched over HTTPS and run without a signature. The manual steps in the README avoid running a script.
  • pacman cannot tell that a signed package list is old, so someone in control of the server could withhold updates. They could not alter packages.
  • A package is only as trustworthy as the project release it came from.

There aren't any published security advisories