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Re:Steam hit by major security breach by rplnt on Monday July 27, 2015 @05:09AM (#9954139)
We're comparing one-time fixed-length code. Is it necessary?
Re:Steam hit by major security breach by mikeash on Monday July 27, 2015 @11:47AM (#9955850)
Probably not. Ideally you'd implement this endpoint to invalidate the code after a few failures, so a timing attack would be impossible to carry out. But it's a good idea to use one anyway, in case it turns out that you're wrong, or that other code is also broken somehow. It costs almost nothing to do so.