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Possible timing attack vulnerability #3

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Philipp91 opened this issue Dec 30, 2016 · 0 comments

Philipp91 commented Dec 30, 2016

Just a quick heads-up from a passer-by:
https://github.com/icorderi/kinetic-rust/blob/master/src/kinetic/authentication.rs#L91
This comparison might be vulnerable to timing attacks because it's not constant-time. Not sure if that's relevant here at all.

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