--- a/src/share/classes/java/security/MessageDigest.java	Mon Sep 14 11:46:16 2009 +0400
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/security/MessageDigest.java	Thu Sep 24 22:50:41 2009 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 1996-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright 1996-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -414,16 +414,17 @@ public abstract class MessageDigest exte
      *
      * @return true if the digests are equal, false otherwise.
      */
-    public static boolean isEqual(byte digesta[], byte digestb[]) {
-        if (digesta.length != digestb.length)
+    public static boolean isEqual(byte[] digesta, byte[] digestb) {
+        if (digesta.length != digestb.length) {
             return false;
-
+        }
+
+        int result = 0;
+        // time-constant comparison
         for (int i = 0; i < digesta.length; i++) {
-            if (digesta[i] != digestb[i]) {
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-        return true;
+            result |= digesta[i] ^ digestb[i];
+        }
+        return result == 0;
     }
 
     /**