GitHub user pyr opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/65
Use constant-time comparison functions when checking signatures
This limits the likeliness of timing attacks against the API.
See http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/ for the
full rationale.
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https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/65.patch
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This closes #65
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commit 9b4e39e837af498599859c4a6687eb8bf9f8ad89
Author: Pierre-Yves Ritschard <[email protected]>
Date: 2015-01-14T10:27:35Z
Use constant-time comparison functions when checking signatures
This limits the likeliness of timing attacks against the API.
See http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/ for the
full rationale.
Conflicts:
server/src/com/cloud/api/ApiServer.java
server/src/com/cloud/user/AccountManagerImpl.java
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