Charles-François Natali <[email protected]> added the comment:

> Therefore the expected digest changes each time.

Exactly.
Timing attacks (which aren't really new :-) depend on a constant digest to 
successively determine the characters composing the digest. Here, that won't 
work, because the digest changes every time.

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