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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by nicce on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:23AM (#34819845)
If you have reproducible builds and you can verify the digest of the app on your phone, difference is like night and day in open-source vs. closed-source projects.
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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by lxgr on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:13AM (#34820564)
But you can’t have reproducible builds at least in the App Store.
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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by nicce on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:53PM (#34824823)
Apple can implement to show pre-encrypt hash if they want. I cannot see anything negative impact for them if we just give some pressure.
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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by lxgr on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:13PM (#34838975)
Oh, don't get me wrong, I think it would be phenomenal if Apple were to allow reproducible builds on the App Store!

But given both the existing encryption as you mention, and Bitcode (mandatory for at least the Apple Watch for now), I think it's unfortunately pretty unlikely to happen.

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