[CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

On 07/01/2014 15:55, Giles Coochey wrote:
> 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...
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

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