"Reproducible build" definition in OpenSSF glossary

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Sun Jun 29 14:12:43 UTC 2025


hi,

when we are talking about reproduciblity here, we mean bit by bit
reproducing something by rebuilding it. Being able to use a blackbox
(eg a binary) to get repeated results a few times is not what we mean
when we talk about something has been reproduced here... sorry.


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	Holger

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