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by fuklief 1929 days ago
> ... leakage by timing side-channels depends in parts on how accurate your time-measurements are (e.g. Javascript's timer resolution was degraded, in order to make transient failure attacks like Spectre harder [1]).

But that doesn't matter if how long it takes for your instructions to execute is data independent, no ?

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How are you planning to ensure that all victim code has data-independent timing?