Jon Oberheide <j...@oberheide.org> added the comment: > You could rewrite: > > result |= x ^ y > > as: > > result |= (x != y)
You could, but it's best not to introduce any conditional branching based if at all possible. For reference, see: http://rdist.root.org/2009/05/28/timing-attack-in-google-keyczar-library/#comment-5783 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14532> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
