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Compiling Rust with GCC: an update

Compiling Rust with GCC: an update

Posted Sep 12, 2022 22:51 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Compiling Rust with GCC: an update by developer122
Parent article: Compiling Rust with GCC: an update

> While trusting trust attacks are hypothetically possible, they're of little to no concern to the vast majority of people.

We shouldn't be discounting attacks like that on the basis of what is popular. Otherwise, we run the risk of repeating the giant mess from the slew of side channel attacks that went from "hypothetically possible" to demonstrable but hard to repeat to causing industry wide changes within a few years. Good news for Rust is that there are multiple implementations already and only likely going to mature with time.

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Compiling Rust with GCC: an update

Posted Sep 13, 2022 7:23 UTC (Tue) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]

> We shouldn't be discounting attacks like that on the basis of what is popular.

Sure, but on the other hand it's sufficient if only a small group are working on solving the problem. Once it's worked out, we can automate it and roll it out everywhere. It's also relevant that there hasn't been an example found in the wild, which means it's judged very low risk.


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