Re: Famous paper on security and source code from the '60s or '70s

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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:26

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Fustbariclation <peter.h....@gmail.com> 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.

	Perhaps this one "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson:

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

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