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author | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2005-05-16 19:14:34 +0000 |
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committer | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2005-05-16 19:14:34 +0000 |
commit | 91b17fbad4eed87b7fcd2fbc4d0cba73cf34668c (patch) | |
tree | 7cf24087f03b49ab391c73b0b05bfa85525cd718 /CHANGES | |
parent | ce92b6eb9c9f4fa570564ec2dd9cbce68d9983f3 (diff) |
Change wording for BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime() entry
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -800,10 +800,10 @@ Changes between 0.9.7g and 0.9.7h [XX xxx XXXX] *) Make a new fixed-window mod_exp implementation the default for - RSA, DSA, and DH private-key operations to mitigate the - hyper-threading timing attacks pointed out by Colin Percival - (http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/), - and potential related attacks. + RSA, DSA, and DH private-key operations so that the sequence of + squares and multiplies and the memory access pattern are + independent of the particular secret key. This will mitigate + cache-timing and potential related attacks. BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime() is the new exponentiation implementation, and this is automatically used by BN_mod_exp_mont() if the new flag |