News
Highlights
Here are our news highlights. For a complete list, see the Press section.
June 16, 2021
The Sigstore community live-streamed a key generation and signing ceremony for the Sigstore trust root, which is using The Update Framework (TUF) primitives to provide a PKI model with no single entity in charge of the trust root, and shorter root key lifespan than traditional PKI models.
March 5, 2021
The TUF specification is now published as a rich HTML document with a table of contents, syntax highlighting, cross-linking, and other features.
The new publication machinery also maintains a list of all versions published since the format change.
October 30, 2020
The Python Software Foundation live-streams a key generation and signing ceremony that marks the first practical steps in deploying The Update Framework (TUF) to the Python Package Index.
February 15, 2020
PEP 458, Secure PyPI Downloads with Package Signing, is accepted and merged into the Python Enhancement Proposals (PEP) tree.
December 19, 2019
TUF becomes the first project led by an academic and the first specification-based project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
August 2019
Uptane becomes joins the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation, giving a pathway for ISO standardization of future versions of the specification.
July 31, 2019
The IEEE/ISTO standardizes version 1.0.0 of the Uptane specification.
June 3, 2019
Trishank Kuppusamy publishes a blog post announcing the integration of both TUF and a related framework, called in-toto, into Datadog Agent Integrations.
August 16, 2018
NYU Tandon School of Engineering becomes an associate member of the Linux Foundation and a Bronze member of Automotive Grade Linux on the strength of the Foundation’s adoption of Uptane and TUF projects.
July 31, 2018
The Uptane Alliance, a nonprofit entity organized under the umbrella of IEEE’s International Standards and Technology Organization is formed. The Alliance was tasked with overseeing the setting of standards for the implementation/deployment of Uptane, as well as the advancement and improvement of the technology itself.
January 25, 2018
Airbiquity receives a BIG Award for Business in the 2017 New Product of the Year Award category for its Uptane-based OTAmatic over-the-air software and data management solution.
December 7, 2017
Justin Cappos and David Lawrence, senior security engineer at Docker, jointly chaired the TUF/Notary Salon at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. The flagship conference of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation was held in Austin, Texas, December 6-8, 2017.
October 24, 2017
The Linux Foundation announced at Open Source Summit Europe that TUF would become the latest hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. TUF and Notary are the first security projects to be adopted by CNCF.
August 10, 2017
Lukas Pühringer presented the talk “Rough Times? TUF Shines” at
DebConf17, an “annual conference for
Debian contributors, and users interested in improving Debian.”
The conference took place in Montreal, Canada, August 6-12, 2017.
July 3, 2017
Dr. Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy defended his dissertation on TUF and Uptane. Congratulations! Work on these projects will continue as Sebastien, Vlad, Justin, and others move forward!
May 10, 2017
Justin Cappos gave a talk on TUF, Uptane, and in-toto at DockerCon 2017.
October 10, 2016
Lily Guo and Riyaz Faizullabhoy from Docker gave a talk on TUF and Notary at LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016. Slides of their talk are available here.
September 22, 2016
TUF now welcomes proposals to extend the specification! For more information, please see TUF Augmentation Proposals (TAPs).
August 24, 2016
Riyaz Faizullabhoy from Docker gave a talk on TUF and Notary at LinuxCon North America. Slides of his talk are available here.
March 18, 2016
Trishank Kuppusamy presents “Diplomat: Using Delegations to Protect Community Repositories” at NSDI 2016. Presentation slides and audio of the talk are also available
February 22, 2016
David Lawrence and Ying Li from Docker present at PyCon 2016. The title of their talk is: When the going gets tough, get TUF going
February 19, 2016
The Update Framework acquires a logo to call its own, thanks to Maria Jose Barrera (https://twitter.com/joseemari) who created the logo, and Santiago Torres who found Barrerra.
August 12, 2015
The Docker team announces Docker Content Trust, which integrates TUF via Notary. Docker Content Trust will be available starting with Docker 1.8, and supports image signing and verification. For more information on the Docker + TUF integration, consult this blog post.
Press
Design2Part Magazine-April 2, 2020: Open Source Framework Helps Automakers Secure OTA Updates
TechCrunch-March 11, 2020: AWS Launches Bottlerocket, a Linux-based OS for Container Hosting
Python Foundation Blogspot-March 4, 2020: An Update PyPI Funded Work
MP3 Monster’s Blog-January 4, 2020: Security Vulnerabilities in Solution Deployment
AV Network-December 27, 2019: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces TUF Graduation
Linux Weekly News-December 19, 2019: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces TUF Graduation
DevClass-December 19, 2019: The Update Framework Becomes the Ninth Project to Graduate CNCF
DevOps-December 18, 2019: CNCF Graduates TUF Project to Secure Software Updates
Linux Weekly News-July 24, 2019: Protecting update systems from nation-state attackers
Just Auto-May 30, 2019: HERE and Uptane Team on automotive/IoT security
Traffic Technology Today-May 29,2019: HERE Technologies Joins the Uptane Alliance
TMCnet.com-May 28, 2019: HERE Technologies Joins the Uptane Alliance
Auto Cybersecurity Connected Car News-August 19, 2018: Uptane Prevents Attacks
eweek.com-July 13, 2018: How The Update Framework Improves Software Distribution Security
eSecurity Planet.com-June 13, 2018: Container and Kubernetes Security: It’s Complicated
Container Journal-October 2017: CNCF Adds 2 Projects to Better Secure Containers
Enterprise Cloud News-October 2017: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Adopts 2 Security Projects
The New Stack-October 2017: CNCF Brings Security to the Cloud Native Stack with Notary, TUF Adoption
Popular Science-October 2017: The Year’s Most Important Innovations in Security
eWeek-April 2017: How The Update Framework Improves Security of Software Updates
Forbes-January 2017: Uptane Will Protect your Connected Car from Hackers
Christian Science Monitor-January 2017: Are Software Uodates Key to Stopping Criminal Car Hacks?
Duo Tech Talk-July 2016: Secure Software Distribution in an Adversarial World
The New Stack-August 2015: Docker: With Content Trust, You Can Run Containers on Untrusted Networks
Hacker News-December 2014: Incremental Plans to Improve Python Packaging
Promotional materials on TUF (The Update Framework) w/ Justin Cappos and Trishank Kuppusamy