Re: CVS commit: src

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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?

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David A. Holland
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