On android "secure messengers" and reproducible builds (or lack thereof)

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Thu Dec 8 16:43:35 UTC 2022


On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 02:17:02AM +0100, FC Stegerman wrote:
> I looked at how several android messenger apps claiming to have
> reproducible builds actually verify that they do [1].
> TL;DR: It's quite possible these messengers actually have reproducible
> builds, but the verification scripts they use don't actually allow us
> to verify whether they do.
> [1] https://gist.github.com/obfusk/c51ebbf571e04ddf29e21146096675f8

that's really cool, thank you for sharing this here! the results are 
actually a bit depressing but it's good to have them in presentable form.


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cheers,
	Holger

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