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 ====== Request for Comments: Timing attack safe string comparison function ====== ====== Request for Comments: Timing attack safe string comparison function ======
-  * Version: 0.2+  * Version: 1.0
   * Date: 2013-12-22   * Date: 2013-12-22
-  * Author: Rouven Weßling, me@rouvenwessling +  * Author: Rouven Weßling, me@rouvenwessling.de 
-  * Status: Under Discussion+  * Status: Implemented in 5.6 as hash_equals()
   * First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/timing_attack   * First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/timing_attack
  
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 ===== Proposal ===== ===== Proposal =====
  
-Implement a new function called hash_compare.+Implement a new function called hash_compare as part of ext/hash.
  
 Signature bool hash_compare(string knownString, string userString) Signature bool hash_compare(string knownString, string userString)
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 None. None.
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-===== Open Issues ===== 
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-  * Decide on a name for the function. 
  
 ===== Patches and Tests ===== ===== Patches and Tests =====
  
 Patch including tests: https://github.com/realityking/php-src/compare/timing_attack Patch including tests: https://github.com/realityking/php-src/compare/timing_attack
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 +===== Vote =====
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 +<doodle title="Timing attack safe string comparison function" auth="realityking" voteType="single" closed="true">
 +   * Yes
 +   * No
 +</doodle>
  
 ===== References ===== ===== References =====
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   * 0.1 Initial publication   * 0.1 Initial publication
   * 0.2 Renamed to hash_compare, added link to Zend Framework 2, removed information leak when knownString is empty (Thank you Tjerk)   * 0.2 Renamed to hash_compare, added link to Zend Framework 2, removed information leak when knownString is empty (Thank you Tjerk)
 +  * 1.0 Moved function to ext/hash. Started voting.
 +  * 1.1 Added section about differences between RFC and implementation 
 +
 +===== Differences between this RFC and the implementation ====
 +  * The function is now called hash_equals
 +  * Both arguments passed to the function have to be strings, otherwise an E_WARNING is raised.
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