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Has that attack ever been observed in the wild?

While I don't know if the current incarnations of Nix/Guix will succeed, I think we are slowly making progress towards reproducible builds everywhere.



No one knows for sure, though compromised compilers are not far fetched - there has been an implicit trust on compiler toolchains. Reproducible builds are a few years out from full general adoption.


Assembly code can be read to see if it matches.


> Has that attack ever been observed in the wild?

Yes: https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answe...

Also, I remember in the 90's, people talking about a virus that infect pascal source code files. Memory is spotty about it.

> While I don't know if the current incarnations of Nix/Guix will succeed, I think we are slowly making progress towards reproducible builds everywhere.

Fortunately, the answer is also positive here.


Not with Guix and Mes.




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