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Constant-time string comparison to prevent timing attacks #3

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mgates opened this issue Oct 30, 2014 · 1 comment

mgates commented Oct 30, 2014

return password == "password" is vulnerable to timing attacks. Something like https://github.com/PeterScott/streql should be used to prevent them.

I can make a PR if you want.

ashokdelphia mentioned this issue

Allow hashed passwords #23

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mdavis-xyz commented Oct 27, 2022

Would this slow down the performance of web pages noticeably? If so, should we make this optional?

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