On Wed, 28 Dec 1994, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
If the government wants to attack software like pgp it would be easier to modify compilers than modifying the crypto sources.
A compiler can recognize one specific piece of code or a few specific peices of code and do something perverse. It cannot recognize functionally equivalent code, this being a high order artificial intelligence problem. Thus if someone used a perverted compiler to develop, debug, and enhance the targe code, he would immediately discover the compiler was perverted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. jamesd@netcom.com