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A comment on CTTK: Constant-Time Toolkit. Parent comment

Re:CTTK: Constant-Time Toolkit by minitech on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @07:36PM (#16479608)
> using the term “constant time” to refer to time complexity is far more common than using the term to refer to timing attacks susceptibility

This doesn’t make it “confusing”.

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Re:CTTK: Constant-Time Toolkit by friendlydude12 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:11PM (#16479825)
The same terminology being used for distinct concepts is indeed a potential source of confusion. If you were to say “this is a constant time algorithm” I would need more information to clarify what you meant, rendering the original term less useful.
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