[Aboriginal] ulfs-bootstrap, shrinking LFS.

Rob Landley rlandley at parallels.com
Thu Apr 7 17:21:05 PDT 2011


On 04/07/2011 04:36 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> Want me to send you the few BLFS scripts I made for my project?

Sure. :)

>> I hope the orthogonal layers of the build system are reasonable to
>> audit separately. :)
> 
> The theory I'm going with is - it's mostly well known open source
> packages, audit labs probably only really have to look at my patches
> and my code.

What they need to do and what they feel comfortable doing may be
different things.  (As I said, security nuts love busybox.)

  http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

  http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

(Yes, that first one is the Ken Thompson who created Unix.  Of _course_
he had a backdoor in early Unix, and the way he did it was AWESOME...)

Rob

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