magical, 2 months ago

@glyph

i would recommend also reading rsc's follow-up article "Running the 'Reflections on Trusting Trust' Compiler" which gives a full line-by-line breakdown of ken's original exploit code, and touches (briefly) on David A. Wheeler's countermeasure, "diverse double compiling"

https://research.swtch.com/nih

zzzeek, 2 months ago

@glyph "More precisely stated, the problem is to write a source program that, when compiled and executed, will
produce as output an exact copy of its source. "

with open(file) as f:
print(f.read())

this is why i fail job interviews

glyph, 2 months ago

@zzzeek because you forgot to use inspect.getsource and thus might get byte code? ;-)