Saturday, April 20, 2013

Schneier on Security: Countering "Trusting Trust"

Schneier on Security: Countering "Trusting Trust": "you can write Compiler B yourself for a computer you built yourself from vacuum tubes that you made yourself. Since Compiler B only has to occasionally recompile your "real" compiler, you can impose a lot of restrictions that you would never accept in a typical production-use compiler."

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