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Article #621886Re: Famous paper on security and source code from the '60s or '70s
From: Peter Brooks
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:46
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:46
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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.
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