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Re:Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transp... by makomk on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:14PM (#27733067)
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook have encountered problems where running the same crypto operation twice on the same processor deterministically or semi-deterministically gives the same incorrect result... so the check needs to be on done on separate hardware as well.
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Re:Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transp... by caf on Sunday July 04, 2021 @07:01PM (#27733305)
I don't think that matters in this case, because the entire point of the log machine is to run crypto operations. If it has such a faulty processor it is basically unusable for the task anyway.
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