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Rubens Stulzer
January 19, 2017
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Timing Attack
Lightning Talk about how to securely compare two strings, using Rails.
Rubens Stulzer
January 19, 2017
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Timing Attack
~/awesome/project master= ∴
~/awesome/project master= ∴ git show f19c712702c9fced2461eabd2443c1009baffebb
~/awesome/project master= ∴ git show f19c712702c9fced2461eabd2443c1009baffebb commit f19c712702c9fced2461eabd2443c1009baffebb Author: Rubens
Stulzer <
[email protected]
> Date: Wed Apr 13 17:27:40 2016 -0300 Improves security when comparing password diff --git a/app/models/session.rb b/app/models/session.rb index 7041c8a..685c247 100644 --- a/app/models/session.rb +++ b/app/models/session.rb @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ private def password_match? - salted_user_password == salted_db_password + ActiveSupport::SecurityUtils.secure_compare(salted_user_password, salted_db_password) end
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