Re: [PATCH 6/6] mac80211/wpa: use constant time memory comparison for MACs

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not really sure that this is actually true, since you don't get
> much feedback on your frame that's dropped, especially if you're
> attacking from remote. Basically, I don't see how you can observe the
> timing of this operation?

There have been practical attacks published before that relied on
jitter coming from simultaneous operations.

> Anyway, applied.

Great, thanks.