[Cryptography] USB firewall/condom HW/SW

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Mar 13 09:32:52 EDT 2017


On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Henry Baker wrote:

[...]

> Any thoughts?

Only the meta-question of why should we trust it in turn...

Having the source code is no guarantee; look at Ken Thompson's famous
paper "Reflections on trusting trust" some time.  It's a seminal paper
that really ought to be mentioned again and again.

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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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