[spb]

Though, of course, this still means trusting the compiler: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

[cperciva]

True, although if someone was going to put a backdoor into a compiler, they'd have to be idiots to attack tarsnap; much better to have it trojan an OS kernel or something else which is trusted and far more widely used.