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author | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2021-10-08 00:30:08 -0400 |
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committer | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2021-10-08 00:30:08 -0400 |
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diff --git a/content/AssuredTooChain.md b/content/AssuredTooChain.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3d6f25 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/AssuredTooChain.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Title: AssuredTooChain +Author: trac +Date: 2016-12-15 22:44 + +# Issues of an Assured Tool-Chain + +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 +[Reflections on Trusting Trust](http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf). + +David A. Wheeler's PhD thesis, [Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling](http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/) +outlines how we might deal with the compiler trust conundrum. |