JOSH@ibm.com (Joshua Knight) (03/31/88)
Since Ken Thompson's famous Trojan horse has recently been mentioned in Unix-Wizards again, I thought I'd cite a published reference (again). Both it and Dennis Ritchie's Turing Award lecture in the same issue of CACM are worth the short time it takes to read them. %T Reflections on Trusting Trust %A Ken Thompson %J CACM %V 27 %N 8 %P 761-763 %D August 1984 %X To what extent should we trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software. Josh Knight (josh@ibm.com, josh@yktvmh.bitnet)