From etcd-dev discussion:
https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/etcd-dev/c/oMGSBqs_7sc
I have been working on this system called Asset Transparency[1] which
helps users verify they have received the correct contents from a URL.
If you are familiar with the "download a file, download a SHA256SUM
file, run `sha256sum -c`, etc" process? This tool helps to automate
that for users into something like this[2]:
$ tl get https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/download/v3.4.12/etcd-v3.4.12-darwin-amd64.zip
And a best practice for this Asset Transparency system is that URLs
are registered with the log as soon as possible. Why? Well, the sooner
a URL is entered the longer it can protect people consuming a URL from
unexpected content modification from say a GitHub credential
compromise.
To that end I have written a GitHub Action[3] that will automatically
do that on every release. It is easy to activate and should be hands
free after installation. So, before I enable it I want to see if there
are any concerns from maintainers. The only change to our repo will be
a new file in .github/workflows.
[1] https://www.transparencylog.com
[2] https://github.com/transparencylog/tl
[3] https://github.com/transparencylog/publish-releases-asset-transparency-action
