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author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> | 2015-06-03 22:15:12 +0800 |
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committer | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> | 2015-06-03 22:15:12 +0800 |
commit | 1fa1c3f9db61e11d18363140f167ca1627e2f6ed (patch) | |
tree | 09fb61ca7f315cdbcc37780e1fdd604211fc525e /svr-authpasswd.c | |
parent | 91df741926323203725c2f0e812834865c7b2aba (diff) |
note about constant_time_strcmp and lengths
Diffstat (limited to 'svr-authpasswd.c')
-rw-r--r-- | svr-authpasswd.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/svr-authpasswd.c b/svr-authpasswd.c index 7a5a121..0153a53 100644 --- a/svr-authpasswd.c +++ b/svr-authpasswd.c @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ #ifdef ENABLE_SVR_PASSWORD_AUTH +/* not constant time when strings are differing lengths. + string content isn't leaked, and crypt hashes are predictable length. */ static int constant_time_strcmp(const char* a, const char* b) { size_t la = strlen(a); size_t lb = strlen(b); |