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Reflections on trusting trust

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To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

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              ACM Turing award lectures
              January 2007
              396 pages
              ISBN:9781450310499
              DOI:10.1145/1283920

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