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core/crypto: Add more documentation about assumptions (NFC)
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@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ constant-time byte comparison.
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- Best-effort is make to mitigate timing side-channels on reasonable
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architectures. Architectures that are known to be unreasonable include
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but are not limited to i386, i486, and WebAssembly.
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- Implementations assume a 64-bit architecture (64-bit integer arithmetic
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is fast, and includes add-with-carry, sub-with-borrow, and full-result
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multiply).
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- Hardware sidechannels are explicitly out of scope for this package.
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Notable examples include but are not limited to:
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- Power/RF side-channels etc.
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- Fault injection attacks etc.
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- Hardware vulnerabilities ("apply mitigations or buy a new CPU").
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- The packages attempt to santize sensitive data, however this is, and
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will remain a "best-effort" implementation decision. As Thomas Pornin
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puts it "In general, such memory cleansing is a fool's quest."
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