You're being quite creative with alternative spelling and punctuation. However, if you think that provides sustainable stealth cover against a competent attacker (TLA agencies must by now be really good with linguistic forensics) you're fooling yourself. For executable binary verification it is obviously necessary to use compilers/linkers which don't write crap into the binary. Speaking of which, given the size of the code blob one could as well use handcrafted assembly. Also, using a standartized build environment is not exactly rocket science, since one can checksum ISO images, too. Platinum Group Linux would be a good name for the distro. On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, cyphrpnk wrote:

Hi all, Its obvious that some of us here are developers and still others have never typed make or gcc in their lives.

-v and -V options given to various forms of ld caused the embeddment of version information in the binary(Sunpro does this also, AND early versions of MSC allowed embeddment of version information also.) The fact that most environments dont link -Bstatic and instead link -Bdynamic means that every time you attempt to produce a binary from 2 different systems that the dynamic link information will be different checkout link.h link_elf.h link_aout.h in /usr/include

in addition MOST modern developement environments include a date field when compiled and linked in the binary

sheesh a cypherpunk BTW. AARG and eugene are idiots nyah nyah nyah!!