View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack, in which a compromised compiler backdoors the programs it builds and reproduces the backdoor in subsequent rebuilds of itself, is widely regarded as a threat specific to...
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Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution through Binary Manipulation
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack, in which a compromised compiler backdoors the programs it builds and reproduces the backdoor in subsequent rebuilds of itself, is widely regarded as a threat specific to...