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Re: Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm

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Nice…maybe will help some of the recent attacks

If maintainers actually use it

This is the biggest question I also had after reading the blog post. Given the recent chain of attacks, wouldn't it make sense to enforce staged publish by default or at least gradually move over to it?

Re: Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm

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Seen favorably, staged publishing is a band aid. Seen more realistically I believe that in the long run it will even hurt our efforts for more secure infra.

How could it possibly hurt?

For trusted publishing, it's not a band-aid, it's a significant improvement that kills an entire class of CI takeover publish attacks. I'm sure attackers will find another way but it's a big gap this is closing up.

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