alt Hacker NewsSo what was the programming error in the TPM?
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jcurtis • today at 10:05 AM
49 days is a bit under 2^32 milliseconds... So unsigned int overflow?
So what was the programming error in the TPM?
49 days is a bit under 2^32 milliseconds... So unsigned int overflow?
Something breaking after 49.7 days is a classic. Someone counted milliseconds since start with a 32 bit unsigned int and some code assumed it couldn't wrap.