taf 0.30.3

Description:

taf 0.30.3

TAF (The Archive Framework)
TAF is a framework that aims to provide archival authentication
and ensure that Git repositories can be securely cloned/updated. TAF's implementation
strongly relies on The Update Framework (TUF),
which helps developers maintain the security of a software update system. It provides a
flexible framework and specification that developers can integrate into any software update
system. TAF integrates Git with TUF:

TUF targets were modified to authenticate Git commits instead of individual files.
This reduces the metadata size and simplifies authentication.
The TUF metadata repository storage utilizes Git. That means TUF metadata files are
stored in a Git repository, which is referred to as an authentication repository.

When a TAF authentication repository is cloned, all target repositories are also cloned, and
TUF validation is performed against every commit since the repository's inception. When a TAF
repository is updated, data is fetched from upstream and each commit is authenticated. A TAF
clone/update differs from a standard Git clone/fetch in that remote commits aren't added to the
local Git repositories until they've been fully authenticated locally. TAF can be used to secure
any git repository, regardless of its content.
Threats
A git repository can be compromised in several ways:

An attacker might hack a user's account on a code hosting platform, like GitHub or GitLab.
An attacker might compromise the hosting platform itself.
An attacker might gain access to a developer's personal computer.

Such an attacker could then:

Upload a new GPG key to GitHub.
Push new commits to any repository.
Add another authorized user with write access.
Unprotect the master branch of any repository and force-push to it.

TAF's primary objective is not to prevent the attacks listed above but rather to detect when
an attack has occurred and halt an update if necessary. Thus, TAF should be used instead of
directly calling git pull and git clone.
Further reading

UELMA whitepaper
TAF implementation and integration with TUF

Installation Steps
From PyPI
pip install taf

From source:
pip install -e .

Install extra dependencies when using Yubikey:
pip install taf[yubikey]

Add bash completion:

copy taf-complete.sh to user's directory
add source ./taf-complete.sh to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bash_profile

Development Setup
We are using pre-commit to run black code formatter, flake8 and bandit code quality checks,
as well as Mypy static type checker.
pip install -e .[dev]
pip install -e .[test]

pre-commit install # registers git pre-commit hook

pre-commit run --all-files # runs code formatting and quality checks for all files

NOTE: For Windows users: Open settings.json and replace paths.
Running Tests
To run tests with mocked Yubikey:
pytest

To run tests with real Yubikey:

Insert test Yubikey
Run taf setup_test_key
WARNING: This command will import targets private key to signature slot of your Yubikey, as well as new self-signed x509 certificate!
Run REAL_YK=True pytest or set REAL_YK=True pytest depending on platform.

Platform-specific Wheels

Open https://dev.azure.com/openlawlibrary/TAF/_build
Click on latest build
Open Summary tab
Under Build artifacts published, click on *wheels to download zip

More info in devops document.
Building Wheels on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04
Binary wheels exists only for macOS, windows-32bit and windows-64bit platforms for python 3.10!

Install dependencies

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.10
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.10
sudo apt-get install python3.10-venv
sudo apt-get install python3.10-dev
sudo apt-get install swig
sudo apt-get install libpcsclite-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libykpers-1-dev


Create virtual environment

python3.10 -m venv env
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install wheel
pip install taf


Test CLI

taf

Acknowledgements
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-246285-OLS-20)