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Re: having source code for your CPU chip -- NOT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Fri Sep 24 09:56:51 1999
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:48:55 +1000
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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At 09:02 23/09/1999 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>By example, I
>could verify the machine code for IDEA, but not PGP and certainly not your
>favorite version of UNIX.
Actually, while there are bugs and security holes, it's pretty certain that
V6 Unix didn't have any crypto trapdoors ... and you can now own your very
own source code license for early Unix including C compiler, complete with
source for a PDP-11 emulator to run it on... this might come in handy one
day as a stable, recreatable base.
See http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS , the PDP and Unix Preservation Society.
[Of course, what guarantees does one have about the provenance of the
code? --Perry]
regards,
Greg.
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