On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Ian G <[email protected]> wrote: > (resend, with right sender this time) > > On 17/12/10 3:30 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >> To put it more succinctly, and to paraphrase Richelieu, give me six lines >> of >> code written by the hand of the most honest of coders and I'll find >> something >> in there to backdoor. > > > This is the sort of extraordinary claim which I like. > > So, how to explore this claim and turn it into some form of scientifically > validated proposition? > > Perhaps we should run a competition?
Along this line, there is, by some years, The Underhanded C Contest, an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior http://underhanded.xcott.com/ -- Alfonso De Gregorio, blogs at http://Plaintext.crypto.lo.gy BeeWise, Security Event Futures - http://beewise.org/ _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
