[4383] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
RE: references to password sniffer incident
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (salzr@certco.com)
Wed Mar 24 17:22:57 1999
From: salzr@certco.com
To: "'Tom Perrine'" <tep@sdsc.edu>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:04:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <199903240017.QAA23459@lart>
>as one person who downloaded the source from his home site, and then
>compiled it on the local machine with a GCC binary which he had also
>brought from "home".
So he trusted the libaries and headers on the local machine?
That seems less secure than bringing statically-linked binaries
on a floppy, where you only have to trust the kernel.