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cbdhsjshs | 1 year ago

Formal verification doesn't mean shit when a cosmic ray bitflips your program counter.

Safety critical systems need to fail safely, because they will fail. Detecting unexpected execution should halt the system and revert it back to a known state (e.g. cycle power).

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aw1621107|1 year ago

Depends on the "threat model" I suppose, for lack of a better phrase. I'd imagine hardware faults and the response(s) can be modeled if you decide to do so as well.