Author: bmwiedemann

I have written earlier on the advantages of reproducible builds One of the advantages of reproducible builds is that it allows to verify, that no backdoors have been added into a binary at build time. For that, you just have to build the same source with the same toolchain on your trusted machine. If the […]

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If you have been watching the news during the last 2-3 years, you might occasionally have heard about reproducible builds.   What are reproducible builds? The reproducible-builds project says “Reproducible builds” aim to provide a verifiable path from software source code to its compiled binary form. In its simplest form it means, that […]

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