On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 09:38:41AM +0100, Janne Johansson wrote:
> > without a 'hint' (true or fake), where would you start auditing the
> > code? It's just too much.
> 
> Ted Unangst already solved that for all the potential lookers:
> 
> Quote from http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=124413533913404&w=2
> ---------------------------------
> It's not about where you start. It's about starting anywhere. Here, watch,
> it's this easy:
> find /usr/src -name "*.c" | random 10000
> ---------------------------------

Note that this assumes that there is no backdoor in random(6) (or
arc4random_uniform, which it calls) designed to prevent the source file
with the backdoor from being selected with the above command.

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