alt Hacker NewsNit: there’s nothing “cryptographic” about reproducible builds.
“Reproducible build” already usually implies bit-by-bit reproducibility.
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dempedempe • yesterday at 5:56 PM
I meant with Nix you're comparing hashes. With Docker, you're using pinned versions
bt1a • yesterday at 5:07 PM
i thought it mainly implied architectural/hardware compatibility and deterministic output
“The reproducibility is cryptographically verifiable with hashes“ would be the full sentence, but it’s a mouthful.