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Untrusted doesn’t always mean adversarial IMO, even a bitrot can invalidate your entire input and possibly also trigger undefined behaviour if you aren’t prepar

Untrusted doesn’t always mean adversarial IMO, even a bitrot can invalidate your entire input and possibly also trigger undefined behaviour if you aren’t prepared to handle that.

cwmoore 1y ago
UB = "undefined behavior", thanks
leptons 1y ago
I was using a checksum to protect against "bitrot" since this was over a very noisy serial transmission line (over a slip ring). So, no, there was no "undefined behavior" and it's quite easy to avoid.