On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk <[email protected]> wrote: > It is unrelated to databases at all, the Oracle name does confuse things > though.
I didn't even consider that. Yes, "Padding Oracle" refers to a blackbox entity that gives information about something (in this case, cryptographic padding). The "original" meaning of "Oracle", before the DB system :) -- silky http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
