/* $NetBSD: consttime_memequal.c,v 1.6 2015/03/18 20:11:35 riastradh Exp $ */ /* * Written by Matthias Drochner . * Public domain. */ #include int consttime_memequal(const void *b1, const void *b2, size_t len) { const unsigned char *c1 = b1, *c2 = b2; unsigned int res = 0; while (len--) res |= *c1++ ^ *c2++; /* * Map 0 to 1 and [1, 256) to 0 using only constant-time * arithmetic. * * This is not simply `!res' because although many CPUs support * branchless conditional moves and many compilers will take * advantage of them, certain compilers generate branches on * certain CPUs for `!res'. */ return (1 & ((res - 1) >> 8)); }