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SECURITY: Reduce precision on os.clock() to mitigate timing attacks
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Authored by Anomie on Jan 12 2018, 6:35 PM.

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SECURITY: Reduce precision on os.clock() to mitigate timing attacks

While there is currently no demonstrated vulnerability, this provides
additional hardening against SPECTRE-like attacks, and any potential
future timing attacks.

Bug: T184156
Change-Id: I2b5cc177bded1a9b5600d77116e67817841204be
(cherry picked from commit 6c69cd2ddf4d8bc67b0dae33faaeaeed509d9a3a)

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Legoktm

Feb 9 2018, 11:37 PM

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rELUAdd971b8faea3: Merge "Replace uses of each()"

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refs/changes/70/409470/1

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I2b5cc177bded1a9b5600d77116e67817841204be

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Legoktm committed rELUAc02c63d25a38: SECURITY: Reduce precision on os.clock() to mitigate timing attacks (authored by Anomie).Feb 9 2018, 11:37 PM

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