attest/README.md

attest

library to create, verify, and evaluate policy for attestations on container images

usage

signing attestations

1. generate an image with intoto Statements (optional)

   docker buildx build <PATH TO DOCKERFILE> --sbom true --provenance true --output type=oci,tar=false,name=<REPO>:<TAG>,dest=<OUTPUT DIR>
   

2. confgiure a dsse.SignerVerifier

   var signer dsse.SignerVerifier 
   signer, err = signerverifier.GetAWSSigner(cmd.Context(), aws_arn, aws_region)
   

3. configure signing options

   opts := &attest.SigningOptions{
    	Replace: true, // replace unsigned intoto statements with signed intoto attestations, otherwise leave in place
        }
   

   • add Verification Summary Attestation (VSA) for all intoto attestations (optional)

     opts.VSAOptions = &attestation.VSAOptions{
     	BuildLevel: "SLSA_BUILD_LEVEL_" + slsaBuildLevel,
     	PolicyURI:  slsaPolicyUri,
     	VerifierID: slsaVerifierId,
         }
     

4. load attestations

   • oci registry

     ref := "docker/attest:latest"
     att, err := oci.AttestationIndexFromRemote(ref)
     

   • local filepath

     path := "/test-image"
     att, err := oci.AttestationIndexFromPath(path)
     

5. sign attestations

   signedImageIndex, err := attest.SignIndexAttestations(ctx, att, signer, opts)
   

   attest.SignedIndexAttestations() iterates over all attestation manifests in the image index and signs all intoto statements (optionally generates a VSA), returning a mutated ImageIndex with all intoto statements signed as attestations.

6. save output (optional)

   • push to oci registry

     err = mirror.PushToRegistry(signedImageIndex, ref)
     

   • save to local filesystem

     idx := v1.ImageIndex(empty.Index)
     idx = mutate.AppendManifests(idx, mutate.IndexAddendum{
     	Add: signedImageIndex,
     	Descriptor: v1.Descriptor{
     		Annotations: map[string]string{
     			oci.OciReferenceTarget: att.Name,
     		},
     	},
     })
     err = mirror.SaveAsOCILayout(idx, path)
     

verifying attestations

1. create a TUF client

   • using OCI registry for TUF

     tufClient, err := tuf.NewTufClient(embed.DefaultRoot, "/.docker/tuf", "docker/tuf-metadata:latest", "docker/tuf-targets")
     

   • using HTTPS for TUF

     tufClient, err := tuf.NewTufClient(embed.DefaultRoot, "/.docker/tuf", "https://docker.github.io/tuf/metadata", "https://docker.github.io/tuf/targets")
     

2. configure an attestation resolver

   • using OCI registry

     var resolver oci.AttestationResolver
     resolver = &oci.RegistryResolver{
     	Image:    image,    // path to image index in OCI registry containing image attestations (e.g. docker/nginx:latest)
     	Platform: platform, // platform of subject image (image that attestations are being verified against)
     }
     

   • using local OCI layout

     var resolver oci.AttestationResolver
     resolver = &oci.OCILayoutResolver{
     	Path:     path,     // file path to OCI layout containing image attestations (e.g. /myimage)
     	Platform: platform, // platform of subject image (image that attestations are being verified against)
     }
     

3. configure policy options

   opts := &policy.PolicyOptions{
   	TufClient:       tufClient,
   	LocalTargetsDir: "/.docker/policy", // location to store policy files downloaded from TUF
   	LocalPolicyDir:  "", // overrides TUF policy for local policy files
   }
   

4. verify attestations

   policy, err := attest.Verify(ctx, opts, resolver)
   if err != nil {
       return false // failed policy or attestation signature verification
   }
   if policy {
       return true // passed policy
   }
   return true // no policy for image
   

mirroring TUF repositories

TODO: write content for this outline

mirroring TUF metadata to OCI

delegated metadata

mirroring TUF targets to OCI

delegated targets

using go-tuf OCI registry client