Re: streql - Constant-time string comparison
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Probably, the best solution for a constant-time compare is to
> pre-zero-fill the buffers and do binary compares (memcmp()) on the
> entire buffers. That means that these routines are a bit superfluous
> anyway.
I was distracted when I wrote that.
Constant width buffers, yes.
memcmp(), of course not.
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