Re: [ft-devel] Potential Timing Side-channel in Freetype Library

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

> an unprivileged attacker could potentially utilize flush+reload cache 
> side-channel attack to measure the execution time of said subroutine to infer 
> user input.

Isn't it why my passwords show up as ●●●●●●●●● in sensible applications?
The random fuss should also be added there in those application. I
really do not see why we should be concerned.