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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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Fdroid is introducing another trusted party to your supply chain, which should be a factor in anyone's threat molding.
https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/ However, with reproducible builds now a package is built and signed by both fdroid and the original developer, so you get a net security benefit of having a third party attesting they can independently reproduce the binary from source. Problem solved right? Well, yes but mostly no. Most projects and packages don't have reproducible builds, so if your using fdroid for most packages your still trusting droid.
I think a lot of the online hate comes from people making assumptions that their use case and threat model applies to everyone. That's why I prefer discourse where we just talk about the attributes and not "you should"
Do you know of an equivalent to https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/ for Android/F-Droid packages? I'd like to see some public verification of these reproducible builds, especially Signal.
the public verification is that the developer signed binary matches the fdroid built binary
Yes, but this is often not an option for non-developers