Re: What the f*** is going on?

[jf <jf () ownco net>]

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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