lila

Decentralized Reproducible-Builds Verification for the NixOS ecosystem

FOSDEM 2026

Julien Malka — @luj@chaos.social
Arnout Engelen — @raboof@merveilles.town

Supply Chain Security

Supply Chain Security

Last year...

BUT

  • 15,000 hours of build time on 10 machines
  • Done by a single actor = trust in a single 3rd party
  • Not sustainable

lila

hash collection

  • collect signatures from independent rebuilders
  • reproducibility reporting
  • 2024: start
  • 2025: Sovereign Tech Fund
  • 2026: https://reproducible.nixos.org

reproducible.nixos.org

reproducible.nixos.org

reproducible.nixos.org

reproducible.nixos.org

What's next

how you can help

Become a rebuilder

Fix reproducibility issues

Further development

Wanna learn more?

Check Lila out: reproducibility.nixos.social

Our MSR'26 Paper