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Sigstore project announces general availability and v1.0 releases

Tuesday, October 25, 2022


Today, the Sigstore community announced the general availability of their free, community-operated certificate authority and transparency log services. In addition, two of Sigstore’s foundational projects, Fulcio and Rekor, published v1.0 releases denoting a commitment to API stability. Google is proud to celebrate these open source community milestones. 🎉

Sigstore is a standard for signing, verifying, and protecting open source software. With increased industry attention being given to software supply chain security, including the recent Executive Order on Cybersecurity, the ability to know and trust where software comes from has never been more important. Sigstore simplifies and automates the complex parts of digitally signing software—making this more accessible and trustworthy than ever before.

Beginning in 2020 as an open source collaboration between Red Hat and Google, the Sigstore project has grown into a vendor-neutral, community operated and designed project that is part of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The ecosystem has also continued to grow spanning multiple package managers and ecosystems, and now if you download a new release by open source projects like Python or Kubernetes, you’ll see that they’ve been signed by Sigstore.

Google is an active, contributing member of the Sigstore community. In addition to upstream code contributions, Google has contributed in several other ways:
We are part of a larger open source community helping develop and run Sigstore, and welcome new adopters and contributors! To learn more about getting started using Sigstore, the project documentation helps guide you through the process of signing and verifying your software. To get started contributing, several individual repositories within the Sigstore GitHub organization use “good first issue” labels to give a hint of approachable tasks. The project maintains a Slack community (use the invite to join) and regularly holds community meetings.

By Dave Lester – Google Open Source Programs Office, and Bob Callaway – Google Open Source Security Team
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