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| author | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2018-12-07 12:04:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2018-12-07 12:04:11 -0500 |
| commit | 38480b96222776428d779fdecfa5b9528a65c726 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dee14934b5384ff099742f9f5f3a9fb6965f2d7 /news.rst | |
| parent | efad37ca79d9749e4492a07d61f0356aad221193 (diff) | |
Update news
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@@ -21,8 +21,10 @@ Version 2.9.0, Not Yet Released * Optimize AVX2 ChaCha (GH #1730) -* Const time improvements in BigInt and ECC arithmetic. - (GH #1738 #1750 #1754 #1755 #1757 #1758 #1759 #1762 #1765 #1770) +* Many more operations in BigInt and ECC arithmetic are either fully const time + or avoid problematic branches that could potentially be exploited in a side + channel attack. (GH #1738 #1750 #1754 #1755 #1757 #1758 #1759 #1762 #1765 + #1770 #1773) * Cache the significant words of a BigInt (GH #1734) |