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PEP 458 describes the path forward for PyPI. https://peps.python.org/pep-0458/

Here's the in-progress roadmap: https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/issues/10672

If there's particular issues you believe you could pick off to help achieve the goal, much appreciated!

That is not really a big improvement, as it just covers the threat of compromise for the CDN and any of proxies, but not of the PiPI infra itself.

That is covered by PEP 480, which is already 9 years old:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0480/

Too bad that PyPI (and pip) effectively killed PGP signatures under control of the developers (therefore truly end to end) even with the simple TOFU model, and without providing an alternative.

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