Reflections on trusting trust

Ken Thompson

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DOI: 10.1145/358198.358210
Journal: Communications of the ACM
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published: 1984-8
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To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

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Title: Reflections on trusting trust
Delta ID: DSEID-010-0553927
Authors: Ken Thompson
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