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authorMichael Merickel <michael@merickel.org>2014-11-17 01:11:15 -0600
committerMichael Merickel <michael@merickel.org>2014-11-17 01:11:15 -0600
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Merge pull request #1457 from Pylons/feature.string-timing-attacks
use hmac.compare_digest if available
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@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ Features
- Greatly improve the readability of the ``pcreate`` shell script output.
See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/1453
+- Improve robustness to timing attacks in the ``AuthTktCookieHelper`` and
+ the ``SignedCookieSessionFactory`` classes by using the stdlib's
+ ``hmac.compare_digest`` if it is available (such as Python 2.7.7+ and 3.3+).
+ See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/1457
+
Bug Fixes
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