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Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random num


From: Vagrant Cascadian
Subject: Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:41:49 -0700

On 2022-07-11, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> I hear Efraim say better to have unique randomness and no substitutes,
> and I hear Tobias say more or less it's ok as long as upstream is right
> about it being ok to embed a specific prime as other random numbers get
> mixed in at runtime...

Well, now that I hit send already, I guess another option is ... to have
both?

One package without patches that is not substitutable and not
reproducible, and one with patches that is verifyably reproducible and
substitutable?


live well,
  vagrant

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