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by sneak 1568 days ago
I find the distributor-does-the-building-and-signing to be problematic from a security point of view. I would much prefer that each developer does a build, signs it, and a notarization of some kind is added by the distributor.

It seems to me that if you can compromise the f-droid infrastructure you can compromise millions of handsets.

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F-Droid already supports this. From GP's link:

> This means that F-Droid can verify that an app is 100% free software while still using the original developer’s APK signatures