Monday, October 11, 2010

Trust Issues

This post is to collect together two halves of an interesting problem; one half of which I've known for sometime.

Ken Thompson's seminal Reflections on Trusting Trust is well known; David A. Wheeler's dissertation on countering the trusting trust attack using Diverse Double Compiling. An early discussion on the concept and related material.

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3 things to learn before I die - Evolution, Relativity, and Quantum mechanics. I put the theory of evolution before the other two, and I'm not a fan of the three lettered G-word most people kill for. That's me.

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