GitHub Release Attestations

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Value Prop

Release Attestations on GitHub allow maintainers to provide verifiable signatures for their release artifacts, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of the software. This means users can trust that the artifacts they download are exactly what the maintainer intended, with signatures that can be verified using the GitHub CLI. This feature greatly enhances the security and trustworthiness of software distribution, particularly where ensuring the integrity of dependencies is critical.

Expected Outcome

With Release Attestations, maintainers can offer a new level of assurance that their release artifacts are genuine and untampered. Users will be able to verify these signatures, confirming that the assets are part of a specific release, and thereby reducing the risk of downloading compromised software. This will make the software supply chain more secure, benefiting developers and organizations by ensuring that what gets deployed is exactly what was intended.