From 241a80b717425c3ab3467c0404d546ff2e499264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Rodgman Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 12:01:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Improve changelog Signed-off-by: Dave Rodgman --- ChangeLog.d/safer-ct.txt | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog.d/safer-ct.txt b/ChangeLog.d/safer-ct.txt index b1f38e717b..6c417f44b6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog.d/safer-ct.txt +++ b/ChangeLog.d/safer-ct.txt @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Security - * Updates to constant time C code so that compilers are less likely to use - conditional instructions, which might have an observable difference in - timing (Clang was observed to generate conditional instructions). - Introduce assembly implementations of constant time code for - Thumb 1 & Thumb 2, 32-bit Arm, aarch64, x86 and x86-64, which are + * Updates to constant-time C code so that compilers are less likely to use + conditional instructions, which can have an observable difference in + timing. (Clang has been seen to do this.) Also introduce assembly + implementations for 32 and 64-bit Arm and for x86 and x86-64, which are guaranteed not to use conditional instructions.