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Author neologix
Recipients Jon.Oberheide, neologix, sbt
Date 2012-04-10.20:41:02
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> Therefore the expected digest changes each time.

Exactly.
Timing attacks (which aren't really new :-) depend on a constant digest to successively determine the characters composing the digest. Here, that won't work, because the digest changes every time.
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