On Wednesday 25 December 2002 04:56 pm, Harsh Busa wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
Hi Amish,
it is virtually impossible to implement such a fourm across the globe or even locally.
Yes, definately, thats the reason I said it is easier said than done, corruption from individuals like "Tahir Hashmi" is a completely different issue (Just a joke - I hope this does not start a completely different thread). But taking it a little seriously, may be when AI is here we can have a computer (non-humans basically) do the checking of code. Uptil then this solution exist on theory atleast.
regards harsh
--- Amish Munshi amish_munshi@sify.com wrote: >
How about an organization who check the source code and maintains a copy of the source code with itself. It will be issuing certificates to the softwares that companies develop. Every company who wants to sell their software should have a certificate from this organization. For example a government organization called Software Checker (SC) will be responsible to test source code of every major softwares like operating system , databases, etc. A company who likes to gain more clients will try to get such certificates from SC(here the SC organization can charge them for it). The source of idea is cryptography - when two people dont trust each other they need to trust a third party. Here the 3rd party is SC. So the source code does not get leaked, while the client is happy that the source code is secure to use and does not have any back door trojans, etc. If for cryptography we can trust Verisign (Microsoft company) then we can always trust someone for source code.
This ofcourse is easier said than done.
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