Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #621887Re: Famous paper on security and source code from the '60s or '70s
From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:16
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:16
30 lines
2284 bytes
2284 bytes
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 02:46:30 -0700, Peter Brooks wrote: > On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 10:42:58 UTC+2, Peter Brooks wrote: >> Famous paper on security and source code from the '60s or '70s >> >> I have been looking, again, for a paper. Unfortunately, I don't recall >> who wrote it, but it was one of the famous figures in computer science >> - von Neumann or Knuth, perhaps. >> >> The paper gives a simple demonstration of the difficulty of finding a >> trapdoor in object code. It's an early pointer to the vital importance >> of open source. >> >> I'd be grateful if anybody can give the URL of the .pdf of the paper. > > Thank you both very much! That's exactly the paper. > > It's brilliant because it puts it so simply, and it is even more > relevant today than it was when written. I think that Turing Lecture was based on an earlier paper, which I remember reading a year or two earlier. I can't find it yet, though. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<fjlvsbF5oenU21@mid.individual.net>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!f13-v6ni3008qtj.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mailReferences:
<0190400c-b934-4079-bd73-97b4b6bfc8d6@googlegroups.com> <4b071a5d-b2e2-46eb-a8bd-5e8537b1ab64@googlegroups.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Received: by 10.55.73.149 with SMTP id w143mr1080311qka.12.1523960205887; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 03:16:45 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.55.184.7 with SMTP id i7ls579524qkf.1.gmail; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 03:16:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.233.224.19 with SMTP id m19mr1074833qkk.32.1523960205267; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 03:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!f13-v6ni3008qtj.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Famous paper on security and source code from the '60s or '70s Date: 17 Apr 2018 10:16:43 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <fjlvsbF5oenU21@mid.individual.net> References: <0190400c-b934-4079-bd73-97b4b6bfc8d6@googlegroups.com> <4b071a5d-b2e2-46eb-a8bd-5e8537b1ab64@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net wZGE8aEmet96aQE878HtSw06eP/Fw1KdJeAuo1WDULKPWDfHkR Cancel-Lock: sha1:a8ntHumlYf6E9NcBgSg1bRDklYE= User-Agent: Pan/0.141 (Tarzan's Death; 168b179 git.gnome.org/pan2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit