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Re:Librsvg now requires Rust by BuuQu9hu on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:23PM (#13323889)
http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
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Re:Librsvg now requires Rust by db48x on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:51AM (#13325956)
The only sure way to beat that type of attack is to write your own compiler on your own hardware, not to rely on a different compiler that someone else wrote.
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Re:Librsvg now requires Rust by BuuQu9hu on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:31PM (#13333966)
The linked paper disagrees.
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Re:Librsvg now requires Rust by db48x on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:09AM (#13344451)
Only if the second compiler is trusted. If I can hack one publicly available compiler, I can hack two; your second compiler should be private.
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