On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:54:06PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > How well scrutinized is this NSA code actually? Everybody can see they Very 8) > won't slip in an obvious backdoor, but how about nasty little overflows, > tucked away deep inside the code, for which they already have exploits > in their drawer? Occams razor suggests they just pop down to the local x86 chip manufacturers and ask them for a magic MTRR register. Several governments policy of not using US x86 processors for really critical systems lends credence. The NSA code has actually demonstrated one thing about open source very nicely - every large foreign government considering using it will have reviewed the code carefully. Without that openness nobody would trust it except the NSA
