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>How bad are timing/side-channel attacks, really?

Bad. They are not something to blow off. They may seem "out there", but they are actually leveraged somewhat frequently. They are particularly dangerous in certain shared-hardware environments (e.g. VPS services like DigitalOceal, AWS, etc), and against physical devices that are supposed to resist data extraction (like smart cards).



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