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From: jf (jf
ownco.net)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2011 - 11:34:37 CST
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:27:29PM -0500, jf wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:20:32PM -0800, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> > >> this is only true for remote attackers hitting network service auth.
> > > Mhmm, and runas, su et al couldn't benefit from this?
> >
> > Not a whole lot. You can likely tell a successful login from a failed
> > one within several miliseconds by watching /proc or so.
>
Erm, slightly misunderstood what you were saying-- although overall statement still sorta holds. Doing this locally is obviously going to incurr a lot more side-channel information leakage chances. I'd still prefer to see those addressed over abandonment of it all together.
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