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I think it's for security. It means that there's a deterministic relationship between the source of a program and its final compiled artifacts. If software has
by richdougherty 9y ago
I think it's for security. It means that there's a deterministic relationship between the source of a program and its final compiled artifacts.
If software has reproducible builds that means that third-parties can independently verify that artifacts have been built safely from sources, without any sneaky stuff snuck in.