On Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 00:04:06 +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: >This is just an idea, and might well be completely retarded/wrong, but: > >Unless I am mistaken, the reason that compiling the same binary twice >yields different results is that gcc adds some randomness (barring >special circumstance like including date, time, host and version in the >kernel, and so on). > >If one were to extend gcc to accept random data from a file as well as >the usual sources (/dev/arandom and such, I suppose), would this not >make sure that, given the original random data, one always gets the same >binaries?
Perhaps, but what's the benefit? After applying a patch, I don't want to have the same binaries, but new and different binaries. Maurice
