private static bool CryptographicEquals()

in sdk/PowerBI.Api/Extensions/AuthenticatedEncryption.cs [367:401]

• 24 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

        private static bool CryptographicEquals(
            byte[] a,
            int aOffset,
            byte[] b,
            int bOffset,
            int length)
        {
            Debug.Assert(a != null);
            Debug.Assert(b != null);
            Debug.Assert(length >= 0);

            int result = 0;

            if (a.Length - aOffset < length || b.Length - bOffset < length)
            {
                return false;
            }

            unchecked
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
                {
                    // Bitwise-OR of subtraction has been found to have the most
                    // stable execution time.
                    //
                    // This cannot overflow because bytes are 1 byte in length, and
                    // result is 4 bytes.
                    // The OR propagates all set bytes, so the differences are only
                    // present in the lowest byte.
                    result = result | (a[i + aOffset] - b[i + bOffset]);
                }
            }

            return result == 0;
        }