lör 2012-04-07 klockan 15:30 +0200 skrev Niels Möller:
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > 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.

Maybe a better term to use is "reduced side channel" or something.  Not
easy to shorten though.  The generic problem adressed here is side
channels.

/Simon


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