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In a perfect scenario you would be able to use a reproducible build [0], for Android you can actually get Bitwarden from F-Droid [1] which uses those reproducible builds.

For Google play store, there was also that developers needed to sign their apps before releasing to stores, so you knew that it came from developer, but Google removed that when they introduced app bundles. There is still a way to verify if the build is the same as developer provided, but automatic protections that were there are now gone [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds [1] https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdroid/ [2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-play-dumps-ap...

parent ionspin 3 years ago

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