Bootstrappable builds

Posted Jan 7, 2021 12:36 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Bootstrappable builds by tsr2
Parent article: Bootstrappable builds

You can, to some extent. At this level of complexity trust is basically statistical, meaning that you trust bacause it would be rather difficult to tamper all the pieces and go undetected for long. But you cannot be certain.

The only absolutely trustable computer is the one you create yourself from discrete logic and only runs software written by yourself.