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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. | ||
2 | .\" All rights reserved. | ||
3 | .\" | ||
4 | .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by | ||
5 | .\" Chris Torek. | ||
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14 | .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors | ||
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17 | .\" | ||
18 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND | ||
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28 | .\" SUCH DAMAGE. | ||
29 | .\" | ||
30 | .\" $OpenBSD: bcmp.3,v 1.9 2011/07/25 00:38:52 schwarze Exp $ | ||
31 | .\" | ||
32 | .Dd $Mdocdate: July 25 2011 $ | ||
33 | .Dt BCMP 3 | ||
34 | .Os | ||
35 | .Sh NAME | ||
36 | .Nm bcmp , | ||
37 | .Nm timingsafe_bcmp | ||
38 | .Nd compare byte string | ||
39 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | ||
40 | .Fd #include <string.h> | ||
41 | .Ft int | ||
42 | .Fn bcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len" | ||
43 | .Ft int | ||
44 | .Fn timingsafe_bcmp "const void *b1" "const void *b2" "size_t len" | ||
45 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | ||
46 | The | ||
47 | .Fn bcmp | ||
48 | function compares byte string | ||
49 | .Fa b1 | ||
50 | against byte string | ||
51 | .Fa b2 , | ||
52 | returning zero if they are identical, non-zero otherwise. | ||
53 | Both strings are assumed to be | ||
54 | .Fa len | ||
55 | bytes long. | ||
56 | Zero-length strings are always identical. | ||
57 | .Pp | ||
58 | The strings may overlap. | ||
59 | .Pp | ||
60 | The | ||
61 | .Fn timingsafe_bcmp | ||
62 | function has the same semantics as | ||
63 | .Fn bcmp , | ||
64 | but its running time is independent of the contents of | ||
65 | .Fa b1 | ||
66 | and | ||
67 | .Fa b2 , | ||
68 | making it safe to use for comparing secret values such as cryptographic MACs. | ||
69 | In contrast, | ||
70 | .Fn bcmp | ||
71 | returns after finding the first differing byte, | ||
72 | making it vulnerable to timing attacks. | ||
73 | .Sh SEE ALSO | ||
74 | .Xr memcmp 3 , | ||
75 | .Xr strcasecmp 3 , | ||
76 | .Xr strcmp 3 , | ||
77 | .Xr strcoll 3 , | ||
78 | .Xr strxfrm 3 | ||
79 | .Sh HISTORY | ||
80 | The | ||
81 | .Fn bcmp | ||
82 | function first appeared in | ||
83 | .Bx 4.2 . | ||
84 | .Pp | ||
85 | The | ||
86 | .Fn timingsafe_bcmp | ||
87 | function first appeared in | ||
88 | .Ox 4.9 . | ||