Reflections on Trusting Trust [pdf]

Reflections on Trusting Trust [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

4 points by throwpoaster 30 days ago | 1 comment

Regarding the recent thread[0] on writing a python interpreter in python, this is Ken Thompson’s famous paper on writing a C compiler in the C, and the class of exploits thus enabled.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755261

throwpoaster 30 days ago |

Regarding the recent thread[0] on writing a python interpreter in python, this is Ken Thompson’s famous paper on writing a C compiler in the C, and the class of exploits thus enabled.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755261