From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Compiling gnat into gcc-2.8.0
Date: 1998/02/27
Date: 1998-02-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d67j5$474$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34F68913.2FF865DA@cl.cam.ac.uk
In article <34F68913.2FF865DA@cl.cam.ac.uk> Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>Paranoids will point out that this can be seen as a security problem
>of gnat as it prevents source code review of the compiler. Read
>Ken Thompson's legendary "Reflections on trusting trust" ACM
>Turing award lecture if you do not understand why this is so.
Only if you rewrite /bin/login in Ada and compile it with GNAT. ;-)
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-25 0:00 Compiling gnat into gcc-2.8.0 Kevin Taylor
1998-02-26 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-26 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-27 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-27 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1998-03-01 0:00 ` Trusting GNAT for security software Markus Kuhn
1998-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-03-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-03-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-03-02 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-03-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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