Add AS::SecurityUtils.secure_compare for constant time string comparison

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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/security_utils.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/security_utils.rb
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+module ActiveSupport
+  module SecurityUtils
+    # Constant time string comparison.
+    #
+    # The values compared should be of fixed length, such as strings
+    # that have already been processed by HMAC. This should not be used
+    # on variable length plaintext strings because it could leak length info
+    # via timing attacks.
+    def secure_compare(a, b)
+      return false unless a.bytesize == b.bytesize
+
+      l = a.unpack "C#{a.bytesize}"
+
+      res = 0
+      b.each_byte { |byte| res |= byte ^ l.shift }
+      res == 0
+    end
+    module_function :secure_compare
+  end
+end