Libgcrypt and libgmp

[Werner Koch]

On Tue,  9 Sep 2014 00:03, simon at josefsson.org said:
> Wasn't another reason for not using GMP directly in libgcrypt that it
> isn't written in a side-channel free way?  So calling GMP functions with

Back then side-channel attacks on general purpose computers were not a
hot topic.  The main concern back in 1997 was the problem that sensitive
material could end up in the swap space.  Thus the mlock-ed heap and
that major change of allocating data on the heap and not on the stack.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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