Snowden and Compilers

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Tue Feb 11 16:55:07 PST 2014


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On 02/11/2014 11:32 AM, Rich Jones wrote:

> Compilers seems like an extremely prime target for manipulation,
> but as far as I am aware there hasn't been anything mentioned about
> this yet. Has anybody here heard anything that I haven't?

Read Dr. David A. Wheeler's dissertation, _Fully Countering Trusting
Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling - Countering Trojan Horse
attacks on Compilers_.  It is also worth noting that there are more
open source compilers out there than it seems at first scratch; one in
particular called TCC (Tiny C Compiler) is relatively small as
compilations go so it's much easier to read through and audit as a way
of bootstrapping a compilation toolchain.  It can also compile other
compilers quite nicely...

http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

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