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Re:Deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable Linux builds by raving-richard on Friday July 11, 2014 @10:59PM (#8023573)
If you trust your compiler, then you can read the source code and then trust the compiled executable. If you are worried, then you can build the rest of your tool chain from source...
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Re:Deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable Linux builds by taeric on Friday July 11, 2014 @11:17PM (#8023608)
My point is that that is the heart of the trust. You have to establish that before you can use any "deterministic" builds of your utilities to establish their trust.

Right?

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