How much trust can I put behind a computer system? How can I measure trust?

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Published on 2009-04-08T23:13:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 2:22 UTC
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How much trust can I put in a standard computer running windows? To what certainty can I be sure it will run my code the way I wrote it? How can I be sure that if I declare something like "int j = 5;", j will alway be 5? Is there a way to measure trust in a standard x86 computer system? What kind of protections are there to make sure that j = 5?

I'm thinking about critical systems where nothing can be off even by one bit and everything must run exactly the way it was written to run.

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