Libgcrypt and libgmp

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Tue Sep 9 00:03:12 CEST 2014


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
the key as parameter may leak the key in a time side channel?  Not sure
if my recollection is correct here, though.

/Simon
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