On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:03:28PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:44:41AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > int > > consttime_memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n) > > [snip] > > so, I evidently missed this: what's "consttime" about this? > > It means that the time it takes does not vary depending on the data at > s1 and s2. Here `constant' does not mean `bounded by a constant' but > rather `not variable', i.e. `does not leak information about s1 and s2 > through a timing side channel'.
Can we call it "fixedtime" instead then? -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
