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bradleyjg
on Feb 17, 2016
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How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
I'm not a python person but it is probably a constant time comparison. If you compare things in such a way that the time it takes to complete increases with increasing prefix match than timing attacks are possible to recover the secret.
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