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import { timingSafeEqual } from "node:crypto";
/**
* Constant-time string comparison. `timingSafeEqual` throws on mismatched
* buffer lengths, which would itself leak length via which branch throws -
* so a length mismatch is treated as a plain (also constant-time-irrelevant,
* since it never reaches the byte comparison) false rather than propagating.
*/
export function timingSafeStringEqual(a: string, b: string): boolean {
const bufA = Buffer.from(a);
const bufB = Buffer.from(b);
if (bufA.length !== bufB.length) return false;
return timingSafeEqual(bufA, bufB);
}