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Pi in the sky as ESA starts testing encrypted comms on International Space Station

Caver_Dave Silver badge
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What?

On a normal trans-Atlantic flight bits get flipped in memories. It's a known thing and has been dealt with for years. There are even countermeasures for logic gates that get broken open or closed. And on a larger scale there are the 'multiple input/multiple processing redundancy' schemes (like Boeing forgot to do!)

Commercial space companies use COTS with mitigation.

The news here is why ESA is spending money on a problem that is already solved!

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