Distutils-SIG February 2020

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by Daniel Scott 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

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Surviving a Compromise of PyPI - PEP 458 and 480
by Vladimir Diaz 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Hello everyone, I am a research programmer at the NYU School of Engineering. My colleagues (Trishank Kuppusamy and Justin Cappos) and I are requesting community feedback on our proposal, "Surviving a Compromise of PyPI." The two-stage proposal can be reviewed online at: PEP 458 http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0458/ PEP 480 http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0480/ Summary of the Proposal: "Surviving a Compromise of PyPI" proposes how the Python Package Index (PyPI) can be amended to better protect end users from altered or malicious packages, and to minimize the extent of PyPI compromises against affected users. The proposed integration allows package managers such as pip to be more secure against various types of security attacks on PyPI and defend end users from attackers responding to package requests. Specifically, these PEPs describe how PyPI processes should be adapted to generate and incorporate repository metadata, which are signed text files that describe the packages and metadata available on PyPI. Package managers request (along with the packages) the metadata on PyPI to verify the authenticity of packages before they are installed. The changes to PyPI and tools will be minimal by leveraging a library, The Update Framework <https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf>, that generates and transparently validates the relevant metadata. The first stage of the proposal (PEP 458 <http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0458/>) uses a basic security model that supports verification of PyPI packages signed with cryptographic keys stored on PyPI, requires no action from developers and end users, and protects against malicious CDNs and public mirrors. To support continuous delivery of uploaded packages, PyPI administrators sign for uploaded packages with an online key stored on PyPI infrastructure. This level of security prevents packages from being accidentally or deliberately tampered with by a mirror or a CDN because the mirror or CDN will not have any of the keys required to sign for projects. The second stage of the proposal (PEP 480 <http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0480/>) is an extension to the basic security model (discussed in PEP 458) that supports end-to-end verification of signed packages. End-to-end signing allows both PyPI and developers to sign for the packages that are downloaded by end users. If the PyPI infrastructure were to be compromised, attackers would be unable to serve malicious versions of these packages without access to the project's developer key. As in PEP 458, no additional action is required by end users. However, PyPI administrators will need to periodically (perhaps every few months) sign metadata with an offline key. PEP 480 also proposes an easy-to-use key management solution for developers, how to interface with a potential build farm on PyPI infrastructure, and discusses the security benefits of end-to-end signing. The second stage of the proposal simultaneously supports real-time project registration and developer signatures, and when configured to maximize security on PyPI, less than 1% of end users will be at risk even if an attacker controls PyPI and goes undetected for a month. We thank Nick Coghlan and Donald Stufft for their valuable contributions, and Giovanni Bajo and Anatoly Techtonik for their feedback. Thanks, PEP 458 & 480 authors.

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Deleted PyPI project
by sabrygad＠buffalo.edu 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Hi; I am new to PyPI and deleted my project (pyhma) by mistake. Is there a way to allow me to create it again with the same name? We can not change the name as it is part of a code paper under the same name. Thanks; Sabry

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travis failures
by Robin Becker 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

I have just seen all my manylinux builds fail at https://travis-ci.org/MrBitBucket/reportlab-mirror they all seem to fail in the multibuild install_run phase. I haven't altered anything related to .travis.yml since the previous run on Jan 17th. All the failures seem to relate to a cdn bucket the runs all end with something like this Looking in links: https://5cf40426d9f06eb7461d-6fe47d9331aba7cd62fc36c7196769e4.ssl.cf2.rackc… 1483Collecting pillow 1484 Downloading Pillow-6.2.2-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_i686.whl (2.0 MB) 1485Installing collected packages: pillow 1486Successfully installed pillow-6.2.2 1487DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support 1488ERROR: You must give at least one requirement to install (maybe you meant "pip install https://5cf40426d9f06eb7461d-6fe47d9331aba7cd62fc36c7196769e4.ssl.cf2.rackc…"?) but I cannot find that in my .yml or the travis config file which I use. Any idea what could be causing this? -- Robin Becker

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Troubles with pip
by George R Goffe 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

Hi, I'm very new to this python community. This system is a FedoraCore 32 x86_64 (Rawhide) freshly installed. I was reading about beautifulsoup... and was directed to use pip "pip install beautifulsoup4". I got nothing. strace -xvfp <pid of pip> shows that pip is in (hung?) in the recvfrom(...) system call. Is pip trying to "talk" with a site that's down? Perhaps I'm not doing something correctly? Thanks for your help, George...

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