Packaging security with Nix
07-15, 14:00–14:30 (Europe/Dublin), Liffey A

Managing securely dependencies is becoming an increasing concern of the industry. Here, we showcase how Nix, a functional-oriented package manager, can get us very far and close class of vulnerabilities that PyPI / pip had in the past, e.g. rogue PyPI packages that steals personal data.


Expected audience expertise: Domain

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Expected audience expertise: Python

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Abstract as a tweet

Securely delivering Python packages is hard, Nix can help to automate this process without removing your existing build system!

FOSS developer, Nix expert, software engineering expert with a love for formal methods and mathematics.