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Fully Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (2009)

1 points by fouc 6y ago

fouc 6y ago
"Reflections on Trusting Trust" [1] a famous 1984 paper by UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson in which he described a way to hide a virtually undetectable backdoor in the UNIX login code via a second backdoor in the C compiler. [1] http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html