[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 at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> John Doe wrote:
>>> 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...

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