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by dane-pgp 1772 days ago
With reproducible builds, the difference between signing a binary and signing the source code from which it is built should be meaningless.

I agree that the threat model should include the threat of untrustworthy source code, because we want the countermeasures to work equally well against backdoors, "bugdoors", and genuine bugs.

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Good points.

I suspect for a lot of projects reproducible builds are themselves a bit of a hurdle and not being verified in the rarer case that they already exist, but the point of reproducible + signed builds as indirect source-signing stands.