.NET Core introduced FixedTimeEquals which I have personally found to be very helpful. It’s a small method, but given the kind of code I tend to write, I was writing it a lot from project to project, and am happy to see it in the box. This API is meant to prevent a timing side-channel when comparing two sequences of bytes. The goal is, the comparison should take the same amount of time regardless of the contents of the bytes, assuming they are the same length. This is often required when do...
