SignPath

Trusted Build Systems  ❯  AppVeyor

Pre-configured connector

The AppVeyor connector is built into SignPath and connects to appveyor.com.

  • AppVeyor is available based on the configuration of your SignPath organization. You don’t need to add it on the Trusted Build Systems page.
  • It must still be linked to each project (see below)

A customizable connector for AppVeyor Server will be provided in the future.

Prerequisites and restrictions

In order to ensure Origin Verification, you cannot submit a signing request from an unfinished build. Instead, you have to finish the build job without signing, and then trigger a signing request with origin verification. When signing is completed, you can use a Webhook handler for further processing, such as uploading the signed artifact to a repository.

The following checks are performed:

  • No additional scripts may be executed during the build step and no cache entries may be used (so that the build remains fully traceable and is only built from the repository). The scripts must be all set to off at the bottom of the project settings page on AppVeyor.
  • The build settings may not be modified between starting the AppVeyor build and calling SignPath.io
  • The build configuration must be stored in the root directory under the name appveyor.yml or .appveyor.yml (no custom name is allowed to be set under Project settings and Custom configuration .yml file name)
  • For Open Source subscriptions, the AppVeyor project and the Git repository must be public.

These checks are performed to ensure that the binary artifacts result purely from the specified source code.

TODO

Is the following list complete? see https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-configuration/#generic-git-repositories-and-yaml

At the moment those supported are: GitHub (hosted and on-premises), Bitbucket (hosted and on-premises), GitLab (hosted and on-premises), Azure DevOps, Kiln and Gitea.

Setup

This figure shows the secrets that must be shared between AppVeyor.com and SignPath.io: AppVeyor Setup flow

Action Steps Remarks

Add an AppVeyor integration to a SignPath project
  1. On ci.appveyor.com
    • Select Account and Security
    • Make sure the checkboxes for both API v1 and API v2 are checked
  2. On ci.appveyor.com
    • Select My Profile and API Keys
    • Remember the ① Bearer token for the next step
  3. On SignPath.io
    • Navigate to your project, scroll down to the Trusted Build Systems section and add a link to AppVeyor
    • In the dialog, enter the ① API key you just acquired

SignPath.io must authenticate against Appveyor to retrieve the build artifacts

Encrypt the SignPath API token in AppVeyor
  1. On SignPath.io
    • Choose the Users menu and create a new CI User or open an existing one
    • Remember the ② SignPath API token for the next step
  2. On ci.appveyor.com
    • Open Account Settings and choose Encrypt YAML
    • Enter ② Bearer $SIGNPATH_API_TOKEN (without $)
    • Remember the ③ encrypted SignPath API token for the next step

AppVeyor lets you encrypt secret values. You can then safely use the encrypted string in your appveyor.yaml file

Add a deploy Webhook

Append this to your appveyor.yaml file:

deploy:
- provider: Webhook
  url: https://app.signpath.io/API/v1/$ORGANIZATION_ID/Integrations/AppVeyor?ProjectSlug=$PROJECT_SLUG&SigningPolicySlug=$SIGNING_POLICY_SLUG&ArtifactConfigurationSlug=$ARTIFACT_CONFIGURATION_SLUG
  authorization:
    secure: $ENCRYPTED_SIGNPATH_API_TOKEN
Parameter Description
$ORGANIZATION_ID SignPath organization ID (can be retrieved from the organization page)
$PROJECT_SLUG Project slug
$SIGNING_POLICY_SLUG Signing policy slug
$ARTIFACT_CONFIGURATION_SLUG Optional artifact configuration slug (default artifact configuration if not specified)
$ENCRYPTED_SIGNPATH_API_TOKEN ③ The encrypted value from the previous step

Attached build documentation

SignPath adds the following information to packages:

  • For NuGet packages:
    1. The build settings are stored in an AppVeyorSettings.json file in the root of the NuGet package
    2. The commit hash and repository URL are written to the metadata of the NuGet package

These steps allow consumers of the signed artifact to verify source code version and build settings.

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