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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:33:26 +0000
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@...auckland.ac.nz>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: BoringSSL private key loading is not constant time

Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com> writes:

>But it seems to me any claim like "there are no timing side-channels" has to
>have an implicit "relevant to a threat model".

In which case it would probably have been good to explicitly say that, because
otherwise it's a "challenge accepted" statement.  The talk was fun, and this
wasn't presented as a serious attack but as a challenge-accepted one.

Peter.

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