Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)

Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)(cm.bell-labs.com)

33 points by joaojeronimo 11 years ago | 3 comments

infinity0 11 years ago |

David A. Wheeler’s Page on Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers

http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

First step:

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

rpdillon 11 years ago |

Thompson's conclusion that compromising computer systems is no more amazing than driving drunk surprises me. I must have missed that in prior readings.

dang 11 years ago |

Looks like the last significant discussion was 3 years ago, so have at it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=reflections+on+trusting+trust#!/st...