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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 19:21:17 +0100
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To: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org,
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On 1/3/14, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> 'make' should check the hash.

An attacker could replace that part of the makefile.
Anyway, I think this is more oriented for compiled binaries, not for
people downloading the sources. I assume most of that people just use
git.

> The binary should check it's own hash.

I'm afraid this is not possible.

> The operating system should check the hash.

There's package management systems like apt-secure that do exactly this.