Towards Easier, More Secure Signature Technology for the Java Ecosystem with Sigstore
In October 2022, the Sigstore project announced the General Availability of its free software signing service giving open source communities access to production-grade services for artifact signing and verification. As the project matures, so do the language client integrations that are actively being developed. In January 2023, sigstore-python announced the 1.0 version of Sigstore for Python.
The Java community has always taken a mature approach to security. So it should come as no surprise that there is plenty of activity towards integrating Sigstore into the existing ecosystem and offering first-class support for software signing and verification with Sigstore.
In short, many in the Java ecosystem are looking to Sigstore as a replacement for PGP signing with these particular benefits in mind:
The Sigstore Java client has been making steady progress through the collaboration of the Sigstore & Java working group. Most recently the client has adopted the new Sigstore bundle format which will promote interoperability amongst client implementations. The sigstore-java client library will be the foundation piece on which integration with Maven, Gradle, and other Java ecosystems will build on. It will provide a native Java implementation of signing and verification services.
