JHUISI/charm — Issue #15: Add constant time compare and timing attack resilient functions 
Author: imichaelmiers
Created: 2011-11-22 00:01:03+00:00
State: open
Labels: security

We need to add generic functions to harden against timing attacks.

Off hand, the main one we need is a byte/string compare that at minimum leaks no information and at a maximum is constant time.