The author argues that 'Trusted Publishing' is a machine-to-machine authentication scheme based on OIDC federation, not a concept for human trust assessment. While PyPI and other ecosystems adopted it to mitigate risks from long-lived, over-scoped credentials, humans should not evaluate its security based on personal trust but on its technical design for automated systems.
Background
Trusted Publishing is an authentication method introduced by PyPI in 2023 that uses OpenID Connect to allow CI/CD pipelines to publish packages without storing long-lived API tokens.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Jul 7, 2026 at 09:13 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10