Dogecoin Core release attestations

This repository contains gitian signatures for Dogecoin Core. It is updated on each release with attestations from people that have reproduced the release binaries using the process described in the Gitian Building guide. You can use these attestations to verify that the release files you downloaded are not meddled with and compare them to your own binaries built with gitian.

Note that although attestations are used in the decision making for the Dogecoin Core release process, these attestations do not all have to match. Most often, mismatches are caused by software misconfigurations, but it is always possible that there is a problem with the released software, then these attestations can help in detecting and documenting that.

Structure

For each release and each system target, a folder is created. Inside it are folders for each attester.

+ version1-os1
|    attester1
|    attester2
|    attester3
+ version1-os2
|    attester1
|    attester2
|    attester3
+ version2-os1
|    attester3
|    attester4
|    attester5
...

Inside each attester's folder, an .assert and a .sig file exists. .assert files contain a description of the built binaries, their shasums and that of their outputs. You can for example find the sha256sum of released tarballs here at the top of each file.

The .sig file contains a detached PGP signature that authenticates the .assert file with the attester's PGP key.

Keys

Attesters use a PGP key which most often can be downloaded from pgp keysites, or be found on the Dogecoin Core repository

Validating

If you've created your own binaries and attestation with gitian, you'll want to create an attester directory for yourself (gitian creates the structure for you) and validate your build outcome with that of others.

Assuming linux, to validate consistency between attestations, the following script can be used, from the parent directory that contains the gitian.sigs directory:

git clone https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin.git
git clone https://github.com/devrandom/gitian-builder.git
VERSION=<version you built>

pushd dogecoin
git checkout v${VERSION}
popd

for platform in osx linux win; do
  gitian-builder/bin/gverify -r ${VERSION}-${platform} \
    --destination ./gitian.sigs/ \
    ./dogecoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-${platform}.yml;
done

Contributing your attestation

The more attestations there are, the better, so please consider providing your attestations here with a pull request. If your checksums do not match, please open an issue or draft pull request and describe your observations, so that we can try and explain any differences and their causes.