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authorCharles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr>2012-05-13 17:53:07 (GMT)
committerCharles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr>2012-05-13 17:53:07 (GMT)
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Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate
timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide.
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@@ -746,6 +746,7 @@ Nigel O'Brian
John O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor
Tim O'Malley
+Jon Oberheide
Pascal Oberndoerfer
Jeffrey Ollie
Adam Olsen
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate
+ timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide.
+
- Add importlib.util.resolve_name().
- Issue #14366: Support lzma compression in zip files.