[issue14532] multiprocessing module performs a time-dependent hmac comparison

Charles-François Natali report at bugs.python.org
Wed Apr 11 16:18:22 CEST 2012


Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> added the comment:

I don't see the point of obfuscating the code to avoid a vulnerability
to which the code is not even vulnerable, just so that it can be used
as example...
There are *thousands* of ways to introduce security flaws, and the
Python code base if not a security handbook ;-)

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