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by deathanatos 687 days ago
> but the industry has been aware of timing attacks for decades such that this is table stakes for any crypto implementations.

When I see CVE-fests like — https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/ — … I just do not come away with that impression.

[Widely used] Cryptographic Rust crates offering "constant time" operations in "pure Rust" — but Rust has no primitives for doing constant time operations, so it's only through hopes and prayers that it might actually work, and with no guarantee anywhere that it actually should.

(Other, less timing attack related stuff, but e.g., major companies still not supporting anything beyond RSA.)