Trojan Horses

[Joshua Knight]

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 at ibm.com, josh at yktvmh.bitnet)