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End-to-end it would require something like a web-of-trust or similar. There is little benefit in knowing that your package was definitely built by GitHub Actions definitely from the code that definitely came from the fingers of the random guy who maintains that particular tool.

Unless you have some trust relationship with the author, or with someone that audited the code, the whole cryptographically-authenticated chain hangs from nothing.

Tools like Crev did a lot of work in that area but it never really took off, people don't want to think about trust: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev




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