[issue40791] hmac.compare_digest could try harder to be constant-time.

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> added the comment:

Greg, is GH-20456 a bug fix / security enhancement or a new feature? I'm hesitant to backport it to 3.7 and 3.8. 3.9 might be ok.

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