What is Constant-time implementation?

A way of writing cryptographic code so that branch directions, loop counts and memory addresses accessed do not depend on secret values.

Field: Hardware Security

Related terms

Anti-rollback protection Cold boot attack Counterfeit chip eFuse Fault injection attack Hardware Trojan Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI) Measured boot Meltdown Physically unclonable function (PUF)

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