CHAINIAC

Chainiac is an update framework that provides decentralized enforcement of development and release processes, independent verification of source-to-binary correspondence, transparency via a collectively-signed update timeline, and efficient release validation by arbitrarily out-of-date clients. This repository contains the bare-bone source code of the system and the code necessary to reproduce the experiments in the corresponding paper.

Installation

If you do not have Golang installed, start with

• Install Golang
• Set $GOPATH to point to your workspace directory
• Add $GOPATH/bin to $PATH

Dependencies

To get Go dependencies of the project, execute

go get -u ./...

We use Python to extract metadata of Debian packages and snapshots of the Debian repository. You need to install

1. Python 3.5 or later
2. BeautifulSoup4 and lxml libraries for processing HTML and XML files

Retrieving test data

Go to repositories/ and run ./get_files.sh to retrieve the list of the most downloaded Debian packages from http://popcon.debian.org/. Then run

python3 get_repo_3.5.py

or

python get_repo.py

to retrieve the snapshots of the Debian testing repository used in the experiments. This might take a while.

Simulation

Go to simulation/ and execute

go build .

This will build a simulation binary. You can reproduce the experiments from the paper by running the binary with a toml configuraiton file as an argument.