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Turtles all the way down. Can you trust your compiler? https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.c

• fsflover 1y ago
  This problem can be solved by the bootstrappable builds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368835
  • delfinom 1y ago
    But do you trust the processor? Which can also be backdoored internally to start rewriting instructions on the fly?
    • fsflover 1y ago
      You use different CPUs and compare the result. Also, you can try this: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor This is called "security through compartmentalization", i.e., you don't trust one single entity. The only approach that works.