EuroBSDCon 2022

September 18, 2022 Back to blog
EuroBSDCon 2022

Slides and demo artifacts for “Reviving and evaluating Thompson’s backdoor in OpenBSD’s make.”

  • Recreates the compiler-trust attack from the Thompson paper for make' inside an OpenBSD VM built with skz-opack.
  • Includes step-by-step Makefile to rerun the backdoor and inspect the resulting contaminated HAL9000 binaries.
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