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Article #621898Re: Famous paper on security and source code from the '60s or '70s
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:43
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:43
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On Tue, 2018-04-17, 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. Presumably you mean "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson, which others mentioned elsewhere in the thread. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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