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edit: see other discussion below, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395393

presumably, that would make it very slow, since for every multiplication you'd have to check a timer. you could maybe do it at a higher level, but then how would you know how long a combination of operations would take on that processor? but for a web API, adding random jitter seems like it'd force attackers to use a lot more trials to gain any timing insight.



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