Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling — HN submission

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Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling

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Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling — mentioned by _cbsz

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:51:45 GMT

There's a practical (for some value of practical) defense against this attack: "Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double Compiling." It's fairly clever. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.5548 If I recall correctly, here it is in short: 1) Invent a new virtual machine ISA. 2) Write a trusted compiler that targets that ISA. It is totally OK if this compiler is crap as long as it is correct. 3) Build the original compiler with the new compiler. The result is a cross compiler, running on your new VM-ISA and targeting your host architecture (e.g., x86). 4) Build the original compiler again with…

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