Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling¶
Wheeler, D. A. (2009). Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling.
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Mechanisms¶
- Bootstrap Toolchain Pin-and-Replace
- The discipline is to keep the pin until the replacement has passed an independent equivalence check, not merely until it runs.
This sourceUses diverse double-compiling and exact output comparison as an independent check that a compiler executable corresponds to its claimed source.
- The discipline is to keep the pin until the replacement has passed an independent equivalence check, not merely until it runs.
- Clean-Environment Rebuild
- The discipline is to make the environment's contents explicit and reviewable, and to treat a clean, reproducible rebuild as evidence about provenance, deferring questions of trust in the seed to a check built for that.
This sourceUses diverse double-compiling and bit-for-bit comparison to determine whether a compiler executable corresponds to its source while treating trust in the diverse compiler as a separate assumption.
- The discipline is to make the environment's contents explicit and reviewable, and to treat a clean, reproducible rebuild as evidence about provenance, deferring questions of trust in the seed to a check built for that.
- Seed-Artifact Signature Verification
- This is exactly the Reflections on Trusting Trust attack
This sourceIdentifies malicious, self-perpetuating compiler subversion as the attack publicized in Reflections on Trusting Trust.
- This is exactly the Reflections on Trusting Trust attack
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