[tor-talk] Deterministic Builds - was: Bridge Communities?

[Alex M (Coyo)]

On 04/13/2013 10:44 PM, adrelanos wrote:
> Hi Gregory!
>
> Gregory Disney:
>> Let's not dread on things out of our control; IMO we should use these
>> concerns to develop solutions then turn them into soultions that we can
>> implement. Obviously we can't develop around assassinations nor state
>> funded terrorism, but we can develop a solution for  backdoors
>> and information leaks.
> Agreed!
>
> Let's talk about deterministic builds:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3688
>
> It looks like the Bitcoin software already supports deterministic Builds
> with gitian:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/contrib
>
> I assume you're the Gregory Disney who is also one builder of those
> Bitcoin deterministic builds? Since you're involved in Tor as well, I
> seems to me you could be a great help by providing some information
> about the Bitcoin build process.
>
> Where are the instructions how I (or someone else) not involved in
> Bitcoin development can produce bit identical builds of Bitcoin to match
> the hash sums which are also distribiuted on sourceforge? If there are
> none, could you provide them please?
>
> Can their system be applied for Tor as well or are there any differences?

This sounds interesting.