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tweak to timing-invariance text. Closes #262
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Steps 2, 3, and 4 SHOULD be performed in a timing-invariant way to prevent side-channel attackers from learning which component algorithm failed and from learning any of the inputs or output of the KEM combiner.
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Steps 2 and 4 SHOULD be performed in a timing-invariant way to prevent side-channel attackers from learning any of the inputs or output of the KEM combiner.
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Step 4 requires the `Decaps()` process to have access to `tradPK`, which is not carried in the private key format and therefore the implementation is required to acquire it from some out-of-band means. The Implementation Considerations {{impl-cons-decaps-pubkey}} provides further discussion on this.
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