Six years ago, I wrote a blog post titled Soatok's Guide to Side-Channel Attacks in which I discussed the general topic of side-channels in cryptographic applications, and how to avoid them, with example code in PHP. I had called out that the algorithms discussed on the page cannot rule out compiler or runtime optimizations that…
JavaScript is like making Python out of Bash.
Honestly I really hate JavaScript. I miss the days of simple MVC based APIs and websites. It was really effecient and easier to understand and secure. Now everything uses live sockets blehhh