Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:

> Why not nettle memcmp?

I think "memcmp" should be avoided in the name, because (1) the memcmp
return value distinguishes between > and <, while the side-channel
silent comparison function should check only for equality, and (2) even
if the link symbol should be nettle_something, it would be nice if the
corresponding header file providea a name without any nettle prefix, and
then it's not good to collide with the standard memcmp.

> It would be good to export those functions as
> there are not typically available and each program re-invents them

Definitely.

Regards,
/Niels

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