limits to verifiability

Nicolas Vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Mon Nov 27 09:37:31 UTC 2023


On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, ahojlm at 0w.se wrote:

> Related projects
> ----------------
> 
> The practicality of SSSBEA-CODRB means that the efforts aimed at
> *minimizing the starting binary seed* and at creation of an
> *inspectable-in-binary-form* seed like e.g. in GNU
> Mes[11]<sup>,</sup>[12] seem misdirected, such a seed is now known to be
> unnecessary for a full-integrity bootstrap.
> 
> The use of a misnomer “full-source bootstrap” denoting the intention to
> treat the binary seed as if it were source[13] may regrettably have
> contributed to the disorientation of the development.

Why do you spend so much time attacking other projects?

It's not supposed to be a competition, different solutions can
co-exist. There is no need to declare a winner, on the contrary it's
a good thing to have diverse approaches being experimented.



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