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Re:Qualys Security Advisory – LibreSSL by diafygi on Monday October 19, 2015 @09:19AM (#10412688)
Would Rust be a good alternative? Can you get constant time calculations in Rust?
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Re:Qualys Security Advisory – LibreSSL by steveklabnik on Monday October 19, 2015 @11:07AM (#10413351)
LLVM isn't great for constant time guarantees, so you need to do the assembly yourself, last I checked.
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Re:Qualys Security Advisory – LibreSSL by i80and on Monday October 19, 2015 @11:48AM (#10413636)
Well, there is this: https://github.com/klutzy/nadeko
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Re:Qualys Security Advisory – LibreSSL by steveklabnik on Monday October 19, 2015 @12:09PM (#10413767)
Right. As the README says, LLVM makes this hard. So nadeko handles the codegen itself.
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