--- title: Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing | daily.dev description: William Woodruff (yossarian) argues that PyPI's Trusted Publishing feature is widely misunderstood. It is purely an authentication mechanism that establishes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/woodruff-you-shouldn-t-trust-trusted-publishing-viufzkbpi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing | daily.dev og:description: William Woodruff (yossarian) argues that PyPI's Trusted Publishing feature is widely misunderstood. It is purely an authentication mechanism that establishes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/woodruff-you-shouldn-t-trust-trusted-publishing-viufzkbpi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vIUFZKBPi.png og:image:alt: Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing **[LWN.net](https://daily.dev/sources/lwn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary William Woodruff (yossarian) argues that PyPI's Trusted Publishing feature is widely misunderstood. It is purely an authentication mechanism that establishes trust between CI/CD workflows and package registries — it says nothing about package safety or quality. Users should not interpret it as a signal that a package is trustworthy or vetted, as PyPI itself deliberately avoids presenting it as such. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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