Talk:Byzantine fault

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WTF are you talking about?

"failures such as incorrect voltages can propagate through the encryption process."

What!? Software, mathematics, data, that's one domain (computing). Voltages are another (electronics). A computer doesn't even have to be electrical. But how can an "incorrect voltage" affect software? In reality that might be expressed as a bit being set wrong but from then on that bit becomes part of the maths, data, computing. Voltages don't propagate through software, capacitance isn't measured in kilobytes, and you can't put machine code through a Pi filter.

It's nonsense. It's not even an argument. Why does this article contain utter nonsense? Who's writing it and who's responsible for stopping them? How much else of this article is utter rubbish? Did 6 people who knew what they were talking about try to come together on an article, but one of them was a traitor, and also his computer was plumbed into a washing machine?

84.65.94.92 (talk) 07:38, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article wording is correct and you are wrong. Note that the article's wording says "process", not "software". An encryption process can be done (1) purely in hardware without any software or (2) if software is used, it runs on hardware. If encryption is done (even indirectly) on electrical/electronic hardware, Byzantine ambiguous voltages can propagate through it (see reference 3 or 4, in particular note the figures for propagation and “Schrödinger’s CRC”). Yes, voltages can effect software execution and Byzantine faults can propagate through it. Also note the use of "such as". This is an example. Yes, there also can be non-electrical computers that implement "software" for encryption. These non-electrical computers also could be subject Byzantine fault propagation within the hardware. Path-logical (talk) 02:08, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]