[zapps-wg] Submitted trusting-trust issue against Rust

[Devrandom]

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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