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spb | 9 years ago

Though, of course, this still means trusting the compiler: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

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cperciva|9 years ago

True, although if someone was going to put a backdoor into a compiler, they'd have to be idiots to attack tarsnap; much better to have it trojan an OS kernel or something else which is trusted and far more widely used.