commit dc7c97945344169ca560a95c73ebc47be582f898 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Wed Sep 5 09:11:53 2018 -0400

Add note about use of tor_memcmp() --- src/lib/ctime/di_ops.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib/ctime/di_ops.c b/src/lib/ctime/di_ops.c index 011baf265..73441f84f 100644 --- a/src/lib/ctime/di_ops.c +++ b/src/lib/ctime/di_ops.c @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ * This implementation differs from memcmp in that its timing behavior is not * data-dependent: it should return in the same amount of time regardless of * the contents of <b>a</b> and <b>b</b>. + * + * Note that if all you care about is equality, this implementation is + * overkill: it would be better to use tor_memeq() or tor_memneq(). */ int tor_memcmp(const void *a, const void *b, size_t len)