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Perform constant time string comparison when validating signatures #9

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stevegraham
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String#== is not safe for the purposes of validating cryptographic
signatures because it enables timing attacks.

String#== is not safe for the purposes of validating crytographic
signatures because it enables timing attacks.
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mdpye commented Jan 5, 2015

@mloughran are you still interested in maintaining this gem, or should we fork and take over?

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Perform constant time string comparison when validating signatures
@mloughran mloughran merged commit e0db71e into mloughran:master Jan 5, 2015
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Thanks @stevegraham. I'm quite happy to keep it @mdpye – would you like me to release a new version with this change?

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