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🛡️ Sentinel: [MEDIUM/ENHANCEMENT] Fix timing attacks, charset consistency, and improve entropy generation#29

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🛡️ Sentinel: [MEDIUM/ENHANCEMENT] Fix timing attacks, charset consistency, and improve entropy generation#29
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This PR addresses several security-related issues and enhancements:

  1. Timing Attack Mitigation: Replaced equalsIgnoreCase with java.security.MessageDigest.isEqual for comparing password hashes in PasswordManager.java. This ensures that password verification takes the same amount of time regardless of how many bytes match, preventing attackers from using timing measurements to guess hashes.
  2. Charset Consistency: Updated PasswordManager.java and SHA256.java to explicitly use StandardCharsets.UTF_8 instead of platform default charsets. This prevents potential security risks and inconsistencies across different operating environments.
  3. Entropy Optimization: Refactored RandomStringGenerator.java to use a single static SecureRandom instance. This improves performance and ensures a consistent source of entropy for all random string generations.
  4. Security Documentation: Added security-focused learnings to .jules/sentinel.md.

All tests passed across all modules.


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…ency, and improve entropy generation

- Mitigated timing attacks in PasswordManager by using constant-time comparison (MessageDigest.isEqual).
- Ensured charset consistency by using StandardCharsets.UTF_8 for all cryptographic string/byte conversions in PasswordManager and SHA256.
- Improved entropy generation and performance in RandomStringGenerator by using a single static SecureRandom instance.
- Cleaned up temporary test artifacts.

Co-authored-by: richkmeli <7313162+richkmeli@users.noreply.github.com>
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