trust, GCC, and Ken Thompson's compiler trojan thesis

Posted Jun 2, 2006 16:11 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: trust, GCC, and Ken Thompson's compiler trojan thesis by jabby
Parent article: GNU grep's new features (Linux.com)

The bar is raised yet more if you initially cross-compile your bootstrap GCC using a completely different compiler, preferably on a different architecture.

It's still not infinitely high, but it's higher.