ct.c

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#include <config.h>
#include "roken.h"

/**
 * Constant time compare to memory regions. The reason for making it
 * constant time is to make sure that timeing information leak from
 * where in the function the diffrence is.
 *
 * ct_memcmp() can't be used to order memory regions like memcmp(),
 * for example, use ct_memcmp() with qsort().
 *
 * @param p1 memory region 1 to compare
 * @param p2 memory region 2 to compare
 * @param len length of memory
 *
 * @return 0 when the memory regions are equal, non zero if not
 *
 * @ingroup roken
 */

int
ct_memcmp(const void *p1, const void *p2, size_t len)
{
    const unsigned char *s1 = p1, *s2 = p2;
    size_t i;
    int r = 0;

    for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
	r |= (s1[i] ^ s2[i]);
    return !!r;
}