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pdonis • yesterday at 9:38 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

> nobody should care or even think about this stuff.

Does that mean I, as someone who has projects on PyPI, shouldn't care if I am unable to provide any attestations because I don't want to have to go through one of the recognized forges?

> Authenticity and minimally-scoped credentials should be ambient properties of a system

But if the only way to get them is to go through one of the recognized forges, then they're not "ambient properties" of just PyPI alone, because there's no way for me to use them just with PyPI alone.