[ILUG-BOM] Linux India Initiative

[Amish Munshi]

On Wednesday 25 December 2002 04:56 pm, Harsh Busa wrote:
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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.
>


	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 at 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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