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sigstore, blockchain vs transparency logs

Co-authored by Luke Hinds (Red Hat) and Prof Santiago Torres-Arias (Purdue University). Disclaimer: The following is representative of the authors views, and not necessarily that of the sigstore community. *“Why did you chose to use a transparency log and not a blockchain?”* We get this question often, so we figured it’s best to address this head on. It could be best summarised as *‘why would we use blockchain?*’ as opposed to ‘*why did we not use blockchain?

Sigstore project update — September 2021

Well another month has passed and as per usual in the sigstore world, a lot has happened! Since our last update in August we have over double the amount of contributors working on sigstore! There has been a leap from 46 to 98! wow! KubeCon NA 20201 sigstore will be at KubeCon North America with it’s own booth, so if you’re in person at the event, come and say hi! We will be at booth number S86

Sigstore Project Update — August 2021

Welcome to our project update for August. As always the community is continuing to expand. We are now close to 600 members in our slack workspace. We now have 46 contributors and are growing each day. The month of August saw 254 commits and 526k lines of code were changed! Lots of exciting things are happening, read more for our project updates and our presence at KubeCon, NA. cosign Cosign hit 1.