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by dasil003 2844 days ago
Requiring a timing attack and having throttling on any such endpoints raises the bar quite a bit by itself.

As to preventing timing attacks you can add a delay to give a uniform response time.

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> As to preventing timing attacks you can add a delay to give a uniform response time.

You have to be very careful with how you implement the delay to prevent the timing signal from still propagating to the attacker.

https://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/11/its-all-about-time.html#A...