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| author | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2009-06-22 19:23:32 +0000 |
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| committer | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2009-06-22 19:23:32 +0000 |
| commit | c843de07db11df1087a9e711fe44b111fdcf95fa (patch) | |
| tree | c274f99eeaa5a602172a4ff728b16ab7081d29c7 /doc | |
| parent | 41f381d1873bc343bf472e97f5bae718471365c9 (diff) | |
Use an input insensitive implementation of same_mem instead of memcmp.
I don't know that having same_mem be sensitive to input would actually
allow any form of timing attack in the current codebase, but it seemed
like a prudent thing to do in any case.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/log.txt | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/log.txt b/doc/log.txt index d29f00f36..6454c6573 100644 --- a/doc/log.txt +++ b/doc/log.txt @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ * 1.8.3-pre, 2009-??-?? - Improve handling of low-entropy situations during PRNG seeding + - Use an input insensitive implementation of same_mem instead of memcmp - Add the Skein-512 SHA-3 candidate hash function - Add the XTS block cipher mode from IEEE P1619 - Provide a default value for AutoSeeded_RNG::reseed |