At 8:18 AM -0700 10/7/03, Rich Salz wrote: >Are you validating the toolchain? (See Ken Thompson's >Turing Aware lecture on trusting trust).
With KeyKOS, we used the argument that since the assembler we were using was written and distributed before we designed KeyKOS, it was not feasible to include code to subvert KeyKOS. How do people feel about this form of argument? Cheers - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | "There's nothing so clear as a | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | vague idea you haven't written | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | down yet." -- Dean Tribble | Los Gatos, CA 95032 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
