diff --git a/options.h b/options.h
index d75ee09da6c7a31d48e3d1de861b721656ef29bb..7fa2ea0a52cbd235760eef1ae19e8c13d9652e99 100644
--- a/options.h
+++ b/options.h
@@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ etc) slower (perhaps by 50%). Recommended for most small systems. */
 #define DROPBEAR_RSA
 #define DROPBEAR_DSS
 
+/* RSA can be vulnerable to timing attacks which use the time required for
+ * signing to guess the private key. Blinding avoids this attack, though makes
+ * signing operations slightly slower. */
+#define RSA_BLINDING
+
 /* Define DSS_PROTOK to use PuTTY's method of generating the value k for dss,
  * rather than just from the random byte source. Undefining this will save you
  * ~4k in binary size with static uclibc, but your DSS hostkey could be exposed
diff --git a/rsa.c b/rsa.c
index f86fdd97946c688e84daa1547c40934f8cd53818..7248bed4b96a5262057d6f29cf4ce122469830e5 100644
--- a/rsa.c
+++ b/rsa.c
@@ -275,7 +275,6 @@ void buf_put_rsa_sign(buffer* buf, rsa_key *key, const unsigned char* data,
 
 	/* the actual signing of the padded data */
 
-#define RSA_BLINDING
 #ifdef RSA_BLINDING
 
 	/* With blinding, s = (r^(-1))((em)*r^e)^d mod n */