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Old 06-06-2016, 03:40 AM   #1
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Advice on distributing Elf code


I'm planning on releasing some small ELF executables and
was wondering what advice you could give for ensuring
confidence the code was clean? Or if you like - what would
you like to see that would let you download it with confidence
(as far as such is possible these days)
 
Old 06-06-2016, 07:45 AM   #2
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I'm planning on releasing some small ELF executables and was wondering what advice you could give for ensuring confidence the code was clean? Or if you like - what would you like to see that would let you download it with confidence (as far as such is possible these days)
Release the source code as well as the pre-compiled executable.
 
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Old 06-06-2016, 04:41 PM   #3
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(..) what would you like to see that would let you download it with confidence (..)
0) full access to release source code, plus
1) GnuPG-signed tar ball releases, plus
2) GnuPG-signed list of hashes of tar ball contents?
 
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