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Re: [tor-dev] memcmp() & co. timing info disclosures?



On Fri, 6 May 2011 22:11:06 -0700
Chris Palmer <chris@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On May 6, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Robert Ransom wrote:

> > GCC is likely to turn (v1 == v2) into a backdoor.
> 
> Can you explain what you mean?

I would expect GCC (and most other C compilers) to use a
non-constant-time implementation of (v1 == v2).


Robert Ransom

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