Security
Provenance attestation
Quick answer
A provenance attestation is a signed statement describing how an artefact was built, including source, builder and inputs.
A provenance attestation is a signed statement describing how an artefact was built, including source, builder and inputs.
Why it matters
It is what lets a consumer verify that an image really came from the repository and workflow it claims. GitHub can generate SLSA-compatible attestations natively.
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