Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

On 07/01/2014 15:52, Steve Clark wrote:

On 01/07/2014 09:04 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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John Doe wrote:

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After all the news about backdoors, "planted" bugs or weakened standards in apps, in routers, hardware firmwares, etc... these days, can we trust anything? Can we trust the bios?

Can we trust the compiler not to stealthily inject a backdoor in the compiled version of a clean code?Given that most entries from the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (http://www.ioccc.org/)

Yeah didn't Dennis Richie modify the C compiler to insert a backdoor for him when ever the compiler saw login.c was being programmed?

I think that was ken...