Thanks for the in-depth explanation! I will admit that I'm not an expert in microarchitecture design, so to me the expected flaw would be "we do something wron

Thanks for the in-depth explanation! I will admit that I'm not an expert in microarchitecture design, so to me the expected flaw would be "we do something wrong in speculative execution and end up bypassing the checks in destructive way", not through side channels. Didn't know about patents involved. And of course timing attacks make everything worse for all of us :/