Reproducible and Verifiable client builds
#1,084 opened on Apr 20, 2020
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Description
Expert users should be able to verify that the installed client on iOS and Android matches the tagged version in the open source repo. This allows anyone to audit the app and verify that there has been no MITM attacks to modify the binary before it is published. The benefit is increased transparency and trust in our build system. It also has additional benefits with increasing automation, ensuring all dependencies are pinned and making the build reproducible.
Telegram approach to reproducible builds: https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds
Philosophical buy-in to the approach and examples of mitigated attacks: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/
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