Merge pull request #61 from alexcrichton/memcmp

Add bindings to CRYPTO_memcmp

src/crypto/memcmp.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+use libc::size_t;
+use ffi;
+
+/// Returns `true` iff `a` and `b` contain the same bytes.
+///
+/// This operation takes an amount of time dependent on the length of the two
+/// arrays given, but is independent of the contents of a and b.
+///
+/// # Failure
+///
+/// This function will fail the current task if `a` and `b` do not have the same
+/// length.
+pub fn eq(a: &[u8], b: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    assert!(a.len() == b.len());
+    let ret = unsafe {
+        ffi::CRYPTO_memcmp(a.as_ptr() as *const _,
+                           b.as_ptr() as *const _,
+                           a.len() as size_t)
+    };
+    ret == 0
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::eq;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_eq() {
+        assert!(eq([], []));
+        assert!(eq([1], [1]));
+        assert!(!eq([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 4]));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    #[should_fail]
+    fn test_diff_lens() {
+        eq([], [1]);
+    }
+}

src/crypto/mod.rs

@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ pub mod pkcs5;
 pub mod pkey;
 pub mod rand;
 pub mod symm;
+pub mod memcmp;

src/ffi.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #![allow(non_camel_case_types)]
 #![allow(dead_code)]
-use libc::{c_void, c_int, c_char, c_ulong, c_long, c_uint, c_uchar};
+use libc::{c_void, c_int, c_char, c_ulong, c_long, c_uint, c_uchar, size_t};
 
 pub type ASN1_INTEGER = c_void;
 pub type ASN1_STRING = c_void;
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ extern "C" {
                                                            file: *const c_char,
                                                            line: c_int));
     pub fn CRYPTO_free(buf: *const c_char);
+    pub fn CRYPTO_memcmp(a: *const c_void, b: *const c_void,
+                         len: size_t) -> c_int;
 
     pub fn ERR_get_error() -> c_ulong;