hiding data/code in Android APK embedded signatures

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Thu Feb 2 14:39:17 UTC 2023


On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 08:40:46PM -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> Maybe call it "Ways to combine reproducible builds with signatures and other metadata"?
 
"other metadata" brings .buildinfo files^w^wSBOMs to my mind and indeed we
have (at least) two concepts here, including the .buildinfo into the package,
as Arch Linux does, and having a seperate .buildinfo file, like Debian does.

I've come to think that including the .buildinfo into the package is the
better way (because the advantages outweight the disadvantages), contrary
to what I thought in 2016 and later, but I don't see Debian changing this
"any time soon", sadly.


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