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+We do not have any assurance that our basic tools are not compromised.
+* Compilers
+* Operating Systems
+* Hardware Platforms
+* Verilog and Other Tools to Produce Chips
+
+At the base, is the compiler. The fear was first formally expressed in
+Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award Lecture
+[http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf Reflections on Trusting Trust].
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+David A. Wheeler's PhD thesis, [http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/ Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling]
+outlines how we might deal with the compiler trust conundrum.
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