lib/roken/ct.c

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  33
  34 #include <config.h>
  35
  36 #include <sys/types.h>
  37
  38 /**
  39  * Constant time compare to memory regions. The reason for making it
  40  * constant time is to make sure that timeing information leak from
  41  * where in the function the diffrence is.
  42  *
  43  * ct_memcmp() can't be used to order memory regions like memcmp(),
  44  * for example, use ct_memcmp() with qsort().
  45  *
  46  * @param p1 memory region 1 to compare
  47  * @param p2 memory region 2 to compare
  48  * @param len length of memory
  49  *
  50  * @return 0 when the memory regions are equal, non zero if not
  51  *
  52  * @ingroup roken
  53  */
  54
  55 int
  56 ct_memcmp(const void *p1, const void *p2, size_t len)
  57 {
  58     const unsigned char *s1 = p1, *s2 = p2;
  59     size_t i;
  60     int r = 0;
  61
  62     for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
  63         r |= (s1[i] ^ s2[i]);
  64     return !!r;
  65 }