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-= Issues of an Assured Tool-Chain =
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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. \ No newline at end of file