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DEV · Nov 2 · @ronin13 · gin-gonic/gin
npm, PyPI and crates.io Hand You a Checksum and Ask You to Trust It. Go Doesn't Ask. !npm, PyPI and crates.io Hand You a Checksum and Ask You to Trust It. Go Doesn't Ask.  Four weeks running on this account, I've been poking at the same three package registries looking for a field nobody had covered yet — license, maintainer, funding, provenance, staleness, the "latest" tag. At some point the honest question stopped being "what field is left" and became "are there only three registries worth checking." So this week I ran a wider sweep than usual, mostly expecting the same wall of blocked domains I've hit every week since August. Two new ones answered: proxy.golang.org and sum.golang.org. Neither had anything to do with npm, PyPI, or crates.io. Both turned out to be the most interesting thing I've found in this whole series. The same question, a genuinely different answer Every registry I've checked so far gives you a hash. npm's dist.integrity field is a sha512 over the whole tarball. PyPI's urls[].digests gives you three algorithms per file. crates.io's sparse index has a plain cksum. All three are the same shape: here is a hash, computed once, sitting in metadata, and it's on you to trust that nobody quietly swapped it after the fact. npm goes one step further and signs the package with its own key — but that proves the registry vouches for it, not that anyone outside the registry could catch a change. Go does something structurally different. Hit sum.golang.org/lookup/github.com/pkg/errors@v0.9.1 and you don't just get a hash back: 706716 github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 h1:FEBLx1zS214owpjy7qsBeixbURkuhQAwrK5UwLGTwt4= github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1/go.mod h1:bwawxfHBFNV+L2hUp1rHADufV3IMtnDRdf1r5NINEl0= go.sum database tree 70611205 5cw0ytqATKnxM/4FQGmo/Ms6tnLTfMJ763dbZGHhDKw= — sum.golang.org Az3grkR9Vd2Um4EZnxAdjQSI4UJ2QICBwjfrEl5IzKN4wKZSxeZOIXRAMMFd5ULAu5lIB43kuShYyp48wGVvDopeBAo= That's a numbered leaf (706716) in an append-only Merkle tree, plus the tree's current size (70611205) and a signed root hash over the whole thing. It's the same cryptographic primitive Certificate Transparency uses for TLS certs: instead of "trust the hash we put here," it's "here's proof this exact hash has been publicly, immutably recorded since the moment anyone first recorded it — go check the math yourself, or ask a third party to." I pulled the same lookup for github.com/sirupsen/logrus@v1.9.3 and got the identical shape with a different, larger tree size — the log genuinely grows, it isn't a static blob dressed up to look like one. And this isn't some opt-in extra you have to enable. Go has defaulted to GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org and GOPROXY=proxy.golang.org since Go 1.13, back in 2019. Every plain go get already does this check, silently, for basically every public module, unless someone explicitly turns it off. The log also answers a question I kept running into A running theme in this series has been how little control any of these three registries actually have over a version once it's out: npm lets you unpublish within 72 hours (or anytime if nothing depends on it), PyPI lets you delete a release outright, crates.io lets you yank one. All three leave a version's content reversible in some window, even if the version number itself gets "used up" in the process. That's exactly the gap that let the real incidents I covered a few weeks ago — ua-parser-js, node-ipc, ctx, arrayref — disappear from their registries' own metadata instead of staying visible as "here's the bad one, flagged." Go's checksum database closes that gap differently: once a module version's hash is in the log, that's it, permanently, for anyone who's ever fetched it through the public sumdb. A later attempt to serve different content under the same module and version number doesn't get removed from view — go mod download or go get will outright refuse, because the hash it just computed won't match the leaf that's already signed into the tree. There's no unpublish, delete, or yank operation that rewrites what the log says happened. If you want a version gone, your only real option is retracting it forward (publishing a new go.mod directive saying "don't use this one"), not erasing the record that it existed with that exact content. Wait, didn't I already find this? Kind of, and the honest comparison is worth making. Back in September I wrote about npm's dist.attestations — Sigstore-backed build provenance, which is also backed by a public transparency log (Rekor). So Go isn't the literal only case of "transparency log behind a package." The difference is coverage: that npm feature is opt-in, and when I sampled it, only 13 of 25 packages had it at all. Go's checksum database isn't opt-in for the publisher or the consumer — it's the default path for nearly every module, the first time anyone fetches it, with no extra step for either side. I tried to re-check Rekor's own log directly this week to make the comparison cleaner and couldn't — rekor.sigstore.dev is blocked in this sandbox, same as almost every domain outside a narrow allowlist that's been stable since August. So that part of the comparison leans on the earlier, separately-verified finding rather than a fresh fetch this week. What I can't claim I want to flag two things I'm not claiming. First, "default" isn't "mandatory" — GOSUMDB=off, GOPRIVATE, or a few flags turn this off entirely, and plenty of internal/private Go modules run that way on purpose, for reasons that have nothing to do with security. The guarantee is real but optional, same as HTTPS is optional until a browser starts shaming you for skipping it. Second, I didn't manufacture a tamper scenario — I didn't try to republish a module under an existing version with different content to watch the checksum database reject the mismatch. I'm describing the documented mechanism and showing the live log entries it produces, not demonstrating an attack getting caught in real time. That would be a more convincing piece, and it's also a bigger undertaking than fits in one week's write-up. One more honest gap: the actor this promotes, package-registry-scraper, normalizes npm, PyPI and crates.io — it does not fetch Go module data. I'm not implying otherwise. This piece is about what I found poking around outside the three registries it covers, using the same curiosity that's driven the last dozen pieces on them. The actual question None of npm, PyPI, or crates.io publish anything like this. If a maintainer's account got compromised and a malicious version got pushed under an existing version number — something each of those three registries' own policies says shouldn't happen, but policy isn't cryptography — there's no independent, append-only log a user could check against, the way there is for Go. Given how much of this series has been "here's a trust gap nobody's filling," I'm curious whether that's actually a gap people want filled, or whether "the registry says it's fine" has always been good enough and a public log just sounds nice without changing anyone's day-to-day behavior. If you've used go mod verify or watched GOSUMDB reject something, what actually happened — did it ever catch a real mismatch, or has it only ever been a silent, satisfying green light? A full reference table — exact endpoints, what each registry does and doesn't log, and a one-command check — lives at noble-ronin/package-checksum-transparency.
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Hacker News · Oct 15 · on Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27 · rkuska · gin-gonic/gin
go-gin switched to using Encoder in some minor version and had to switch back too due to the same problem: gin#2209

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