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A comment on Preventing Timing Attacks on String Comparison with Double HMAC Strategy (2015).

Re:Preventing Timing Attacks on String Comparison with Doubl... by rurban on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:46PM (#29298636)
Using the timingsafe_memcmp C function would be faster and safer.
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Re:Preventing Timing Attacks on String Comparison with Doubl... by tatersolid on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:21AM (#29316262)
Not using C at all would be safer
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Re:Preventing Timing Attacks on String Comparison with Doubl... by iudqnolq on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:41PM (#29299496)
As TFA says
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