Support cryptographically signed binary caches

NAR info files in binary caches can now have a cryptographic signature
that Nix will verify before using the corresponding NAR file.

To create a private/public key pair for signing and verifying a binary
cache, do:

  $ openssl genrsa -out ./cache-key.sec 2048
  $ openssl rsa -in ./cache-key.sec -pubout > ./cache-key.pub

You should also come up with a symbolic name for the key, such as
"cache.example.org-1".  This will be used by clients to look up the
public key.  (It's a good idea to number keys, in case you ever need
to revoke/replace one.)

To create a binary cache signed with the private key:

  $ nix-push --dest /path/to/binary-cache --key ./cache-key.sec --key-name cache.example.org-1

The public key (cache-key.pub) should be distributed to the clients.
They should have a nix.conf should contain something like:

  signed-binary-caches = *
  binary-cache-public-key-cache.example.org-1 = /path/to/cache-key.pub

If all works well, then if Nix fetches something from the signed
binary cache, you will see a message like:

  *** Downloading ‘http://cache.example.org/nar/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’ (signed by ‘cache.example.org-1’) to ‘/nix/store/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j-subversion-1.7.11’...

On the other hand, if the signature is wrong, you get a message like

  NAR info file `http://cache.example.org/7dppcj5sc1nda7l54rjc0g5l1hamj09j.narinfo' has an invalid signature; ignoring

Signatures are implemented as a single line appended to the NAR info
file, which looks like this:

  Signature: 1;cache.example.org-1;HQ9Xzyanq9iV...muQ==

Thus the signature has 3 fields: a version (currently "1"), the ID of
key, and the base64-encoded signature of the SHA-256 hash of the
contents of the NAR info file up to but not including the Signature
line.

Issue #75.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/binary-cache.sh b/tests/binary-cache.sh
index eb2ebbff8203..ed947a6620d5 100644
--- a/tests/binary-cache.sh
+++ b/tests/binary-cache.sh
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ nix-store --check-validity $outPath
 nix-store -qR $outPath | grep input-2
 
 
+# Test whether this unsigned cache is rejected if the user requires signed caches.
+clearStore
+
+rm -f $NIX_STATE_DIR/binary-cache*
+
+nix-store --option binary-caches "file://$cacheDir" --option signed-binary-caches 1 -r $outPath
+
+
 # Test whether fallback works if we have cached info but the
 # corresponding NAR has disappeared.
 clearStore