Ah - I somehow am missing these calendar events!

Would you propose that we can discuss this during the 3.0 meeting or try
and find a new day to chat about this?

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:54 AM Martin, Robert A <[email protected]> wrote:

> Brandon,
>
> There is already an SPDX 3.0 working session scheduled for the 15th of
> April (11am-2pm eastern).
>
> Bob
>
> Robert (Bob) Martin
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> On 4/4/22 2:28 PM, Brandon Lum via lists.spdx.org wrote:
>
> Hi William,
>
> We don't have a brainstorming session planned yet - but we should!!  I
> believe Steve and Kate have been working through some of this as well. Let
> me find some time for us to get together and put something together! *How
> are folks for 15 April (Friday) for a discussion? *
>
> I am in agreement with you 100% on making sure this is aligned with SLSA
> and in-toto! (I am actually writing a blog post on some synergies as we
> speak!)
>
> I like the BuildRun idea (and maybe that's also orthogonal to the build
> profiles that Nisha mentioned). Also, I do appreciate your specificity in
> laying out the idea concretely :).
>
> One thing that I was thinking to add is also the Builder information/URI
> (or maybe that's already encodable in the env/metadata). Think its worth
> calling out since that's the identifier for attestations. Since the
> BuildRun document may not necessarily be generated by the organization that
> asked for the build - i.e. calling out to github actions/travisCI, it would
> allow us to also reason about compromises.
>
> Another thought that was brought up in some conversations is that we could
> also point to/reference certain documents where appropriate. Still very
> half baked, but along the lines of thinking about leveraging some
> SLSA/intoto efforts out there without potentially duplicating efforts.
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 1:53 PM William Bartholomew (CELA) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Brandon and Nisha,
>>
>>
>>
>> There are people from Microsoft that would probably be interested in
>> participating in this discussion, are you considering doing some
>> brainstorming sessions?
>>
>>
>>
>> In my mind I’ve always imagined the pedigree information (which build
>> would be a part of) as defining new both new element types and potentially
>> new relationship types (although I think we might have most of these
>> covered already). I’d also want to ensure that anything we do here can
>> integrate with in-toto/SLSA attestations.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I take an example in SPDX today (bar-0.1 is a static library consumed
>> to consume the foo-1.0 package):
>>
>> (File:foo.c, File:foo.h, File:bar.lib, File:bar.h)--[:GENERATES]-->
>> File:foo
>>
>> (File:bar.c, File:bar.h)--[:GENERATES]-->File:bar.lib
>>
>> (File:bar.lib, File:bar.h)--[:CONTAINED_IN]-->File:bar-0.1.tgz
>>
>> Package:bar-0.1--[:DISTRIBUTION_ARTIFACT]-->File:bar0.1.tgz
>>
>> Package:bar-0.1--[:BUILD_DEPENDENCY_OF]-->Package:foo-1.0
>>
>> (File:foo)--[:CONTAINED_IN]-->File:foo-1.0.tgz
>>
>> Package:foo-1.0--[:DISTRIBUTION_ARTIFACT]-->File:foo-1.0.tgz
>>
>>
>>
>> I can trace the integrity of all of the build artifacts (based on their
>> hashes) but I don’t know anything about the build environment or build
>> environments that produced them. I don’t know if bar and foo were built in
>> the same build process or by different build processes and, if the builds
>> were fully reproducible, I may not even know which instance of a build
>> produced them (because the input and output hashes would be the same). I
>> may be able to assume some of this information based on the pedigree of the
>> SPDX document (such as who created it and signed it) but that’s an
>> inference and still lacks interesting detail.
>>
>>
>>
>> In SLSA attestation there is a statement (made up of a subject and a
>> predicate) and an envelope (made up of the statement and a signature). The
>> predicate is a claim that the signer is making about the subject, such as,
>> this artifact was built by a specific instance of a build process that has
>> these attributes and used these inputs. This model maps quite nicely on to
>> SPDX where subjects are references to an SPDX element (typically something
>> derived from Artifact), the predicate is a subclass of Element that
>> describes the claim being made, and we have a signature over the document
>> (or in the future individual elements). We also have the ability to track
>> creator independently of signer using the “createdBy” from Element to
>> Identity.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some of the content in SPDX is already an attestation (or more meta it
>> *all* is), for example, an Annotation is a predicate containing a type
>> and a textual statement and it is linked to a subject by the “subject”
>> property. Similarly, license and vulnerability information are attestations
>> about artifacts. More meta, relationships are also attestations (this is
>> one of the reasons I wanted them to inherit from Element), they are a
>> predicate that describes the type of relationship and what the relationship
>> is to (the From is the subject of the statement in this case).
>>
>>
>>
>> So going back to the example above what we want is a predicate that
>> describes an instance of a build, so we can define a new BuildRun or
>> BuildInstance class, that inherits from Element (or possibly Artifact, I’d
>> have to think about that some more – somewhere that Sean’s definitions
>> would help 😊). That would then let us extend the graph above:
>>
>> (File:foo.c, File:foo.h, File:bar.lib, File:bar.h)--[:GENERATES]-->
>> File:foo
>>
>> (File:bar.c, File:bar.h)--[:GENERATES]-->File:bar.lib
>>
>> (File:bar.lib, File:bar.h)--[:CONTAINED_IN]-->File:bar-0.1.tgz
>>
>> Package:bar-0.1--[:DISTRIBUTION_ARTIFACT]-->File:bar0.1.tgz
>>
>> Package:bar-0.1--[:BUILD_DEPENDENCY_OF]-->Package:foo-1.0
>>
>> (File:foo)--[:CONTAINED_IN]-->File:foo-1.0.tgz
>>
>> Package:foo-1.0--[:DISTRIBUTION_ARTIFACT]-->File:foo-1.0.tgz
>>
>>
>>
>> # I chose to include both the Package and the package’s distribution
>> artifact to establish a stronger link to the physical files consumed and
>> produced, but there’s other ways this could be modeled. For example, if
>> this was consuming a git repository containing foo.c and foo.h then the
>> commit can be modeled as a Package which the build DEPENDS_ON.
>>
>> BuildRun:run_123--[:DEPENDS_ON]-->(Package:bar-01, File:bar-0.1.tgz,
>> File:foo.c, File:foo.h)
>>
>> BuildRun:run_123--[:GENERATES]-->(Package:foo-1.0, File:foo-1.0.tgz)
>>
>> Package:gcc-9.4.0--[:BUILD_TOOL_OF]-->BuildRun:run_123
>>
>>
>>
>> # We could add properties to BuildRun to capture any necessary
>> information (this needs to be modeled to have the right level of
>> abstraction and flexibility)
>>
>> BuildRun:
>>
>>       environment: Map<string, string>
>>
>>       command_line: String
>>
>>       stdout: String
>>
>>       stderr: String
>>
>>
>>
>> In this example we can see that the BuildRun:run_123 consumed a pre-build
>> bar package and used gcc 9.4.0 so we have additional context we didn’t have
>> before, if bar was built from source from the repo in the same build as foo
>> we’d see a graph more like this:
>>
>> BuildRun:run_123--[:DEPENDS_ON]-->(File:bar.c, File:bar.h, File:foo.c,
>> File:foo.h)
>>
>> BuildRun:run_123--[:GENERATES]-->(Package:foo-1.0, File:foo-1.0.tgz)
>>
>> Package:gcc-9.4.0--[:BUILD_TOOL_OF]-->BuildRun:run_123
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> William Bartholomew (he/him) – Let’s chat
>> <https://outlook.office.com/findtime/[email protected]&anonymous&ep=plink>
>>
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>>
>> Global Cybersecurity Policy – Microsoft
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On Behalf
>> Of *Brandon Lum via lists.spdx.org
>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 2, 2022 12:49 PM
>> *To:* Nisha Kumar <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>> *Cc:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [spdx-tech] Adding Build SBOM relationships
>> for S3C resiliency
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Hey Nisha,
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes - exactly!! Curious to hear what some ideas are around a "build
>> profile"! Would this be along the lines of another element/document that
>> would be referenced? or maybe kind of like the defects vulnerability ref
>> documents?
>>
>>
>>
>> Another aspect that I'm hoping to explore - is being able to put together
>> SBOM documents which are not directly linked to each other. I.e. in the
>> situation where there is a known unknown that a build was using Package ABC
>> with hash XYZ, would it be possible to fill in the gaps by finding the SBOM
>> document with the binary hash XYZ, and adding references to the document
>> (or composing the documents).
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Brandon
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:18 AM Nisha Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Brandon,
>>
>> Sorry for getting back to you so late. I've been thinking of an SPDX 3.0
>> profile that would contain software build information like what you have
>> described in 1., but it seems to me from previous conversations that the
>> information could be covered using relationships such as BUILD_TOOL_OF and
>> GENERATED_FROM. However, things like "build environment" (like VMs and
>> containers) and build flags are not part of relationships. I think it would
>> be useful to define some new relationships based on these considerations as
>> part of a "build profile".
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -Nisha
>>
>> On 3/17/22 07:41, Brandon Lum via lists.spdx.org
>> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.spdx.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cwillbar%40microsoft.com%7Cbbca7b884a574f49227e08da14e1ce27%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637845257327869976%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=i51a0OaJZnH0WiN3PZDk8MTYw%2FVGaV3NOft1QdbDpI8%3D&reserved=0>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been exploring ideas in the build provenance realm, and I think
>> there are some ideas there that could be useful to incorporate into SPDX. I
>> wanted to get a sense if folks are interested, and would love to work on
>> something for this!
>>
>>
>>
>> Some of the ideas from build provenance (I'm going to frame it around the
>> security use case since that's what I'm most familiar with). These are
>> mostly orthogonal concepts to those of the SLSA framework
>> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslsa.dev%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cwillbar%40microsoft.com%7Cbbca7b884a574f49227e08da14e1ce27%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637845257327869976%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=8Wct%2B620KkVi3DyDLXi%2FFFr0ea57y8l%2BUqv0J23zMcg%3D&reserved=0>
>> :
>>
>> 1. What is the toolchain used to build this binary/artifact (in the event
>> where a compromised compiler, build container, etc. is detected)
>>
>> 2. What/who is the builder that was used to build this binary/artifact
>> (in the event where a build system gets compromised - e.g. CI/CD like
>> github actions, travis, circle CI is compromised), with the ability to
>> respond to breach.
>>
>> 3. (Already part of SPDX relationship between elements
>> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspdx.github.io%2Fspdx-spec%2Frelationships-between-SPDX-elements%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cwillbar%40microsoft.com%7Cbbca7b884a574f49227e08da14e1ce27%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637845257327869976%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ckGxOGqZP20DXzxgGPuUt5g3J5uitWtTtR4T3hPU8gk%3D&reserved=0>)
>> What are the materials that were used to build this binary/artifact
>>
>> 4. (Already covered by proposed canonicalisation committee) Integrity
>> validation/provenance of claims of binary/artifact
>>
>>
>>
>> I think there could potentially be a place to define some of these in
>> SPDX, maybe through adding more relationships to
>> https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/relationships-between-SPDX-elements/
>> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspdx.github.io%2Fspdx-spec%2Frelationships-between-SPDX-elements%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cwillbar%40microsoft.com%7Cbbca7b884a574f49227e08da14e1ce27%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637845257327869976%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ckGxOGqZP20DXzxgGPuUt5g3J5uitWtTtR4T3hPU8gk%3D&reserved=0>,
>> or otherwise.
>>
>>
>>
>> Would like to hear thoughts/interest from folks!
>>
>>
>>
>> On a side note: I am also interested in getting more into the tooling
>> side of Build SBOMs (and distribution/resolution of). Would love to chat
>> with anyone that's working on it - I'm hoping to define some projects
>> around this!
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Brandon
>>
>> 
>
>


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