Not at the same level, but my paper about stealing RSA private keys via the use of cache collisions as a side channel -- the first such paper, which has since s

Not at the same level, but my paper about stealing RSA private keys via the use of cache collisions as a side channel -- the first such paper, which has since spawned hundreds of others -- was rejected by the Journal of Cryptology on the basis that it was about CPU architecture and did not involve a cryptanalytic attack.