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* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
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Hi Amish,
it is virtually impossible to implement such a fourm
across the globe or even locally.
regards
harsh
--- Amish Munshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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