On 04/07/2012 03:30 PM, Niels Möller wrote:

>> What about _ct for constant time? The _blinding is really specific
>> on the method used to achieve constant time.
> But it's not really constant time, is it? Rather, timing is random but
> independent of the inputs which are under control of the attacker. While
> without RSA blinding, timing depends on the secret key and on data
> provided by the attacker, which is a bad combination.

Indeed. So is _timing_resistant or _tr better?

> BTW, what's a good reference for the recommendation to use RSA blinding?
> Is it in Handbook of applied cryptography? (I think pointers to papers
> on attacks have been posted previously, but that's describing the
> problem, not the solution...).


I've seen it there:
ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pdfs/bull-2.pdf

regards,
Nikos
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