[zapps-wg] Submitted trusting-trust issue against Rust
Devrandom
c1.devrandom at niftybox.net
Sat Mar 3 21:45:14 EST 2018
That definitely helps. However, the lack of deterministic compiler output
means that the distributed rustc binaries cannot be independently verified,
and each user must recompile themselves. Also, mrustc has only a single
maintainer at this time.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018, 18:07 Zaki Manian <zmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is no longer true.
>
> The rust compiler can be bootstrapped with an independent implementation
>
> https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc#progress
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 6:05 PM Devrandom via zapps-wg
> <zapps-wg at lists.z.cash.foundation> wrote:
>
>> As a reminder - the issue is that we can't prove that the Rust compiler
>> is malware free, because it is compiled with itself.
>>
>> The submitted issue is here:
>> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48707
>>
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