Friday 20 dec 2024 project discovery

Raphaël 2024-12-20 project discovery

Asfaload develops a solution to help secure and authenticate downloads from the internet, aiming to check the integrity and authenticity of downloaded files. We maintain a mirror of checksums file published by projects. With currently more than 3300 projects tracked, we have the opportunity to make you discover projects you might never have heard of.

This week's project is Unikraft's kraftkit, which provides a suite of tools and Go-based framework for building custom, minimal, immutable lightweight unikernel virtual machines based on Unikraft.

The project publishes checksums files as part of their release. The current release is v0.9.4. Using our tool asfald, and thanks to our mirror, you can increase your safety when downloading kraftkit’s releases. Here’s an example of downloading the kraftkit debian package with asfald:

$ asfald https://github.com/unikraft/kraftkit/releases/download/v0.9.4/kraftkit_0.9.4_linux_amd64.deb
INFO ℹ️ Using asfaload index on mirror
INFO ℹ️ Same checksum found in release
INFO 🗑️ Create temporary file...
INFO 🚚 Downloading file...
  [00:00:01] [###############################################################################] 36.09 MiB/36.09 MiB (00:00:00)
INFO ✅ File's checksum is valid !

It ensures the file you have downloaded has not been modified since the time its checksums file was mirrored.