[Tutor] OT self-implementation?

Alan G alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Mon Jul 4 01:20:54 CEST 2005


> You may find the following paper by Ken Thompson an interesting one
on
> this topic: "Reflections on Trusting Trust":
>
>     http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
>
> It follows the exact stuation that Alan mentioned.

Yes, I hadn't seen the Thompson paper before but I notice it was
dated 1989 and the guy I'm discussing left in 1991. I know he
read the ACM papers so now I guess I know where he got the idea!

Mind you even though I know how he did it I'm still not
sure I could replicate the feat even now!

Alan G.



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