READMEs · artifact signing and verification
Cosign README
The artifact signing and verification README introduces Cosign through its key capabilities and contributor or deployment routes.
Our interpretation
Useful when you are building…
Build a supply-chain trust product around signing, verification, provenance, and registry-native evidence.
Observed in the source
Patterns and sections
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Documents signing and verifying container artifacts and tag-to-digest mappings
Files
Discusses timestamps for TUF-style freeze-attack prevention
README.md
Includes base-image/layer signing and counter-signing examples for registry artifacts
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Adaptation ideas
What to apply to your own product
- Offer a release gate that verifies image signatures and tag-to-digest mappings before deployment
- Create base-image trust policies that enforce authorized builders or layers
- Provide a counter-signature audit trail for security and compliance reviewers
Tradeoff to consider
Cryptographic verification raises release integrity but adds key, timestamp, registry, and policy-management complexity.
Starting route
Sign and verify a test container following the README examples, then record the minimum evidence a deployment gate needs.
Source and version
- cosign/README.md at e2d25b54f768bdaa868318651e453b7bbc53c0ce · sigstore/cosign · GitHub ↗https://github.com/sigstore/cosign/blob/e2d25b54f768bdaa868318651e453b7bbc53c0ce/README.md
Reviewed README at commit e2d25b54f768bdaa868318651e453b7bbc53c0ce. The linked file is pinned to that revision; the live repository may change.
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