I don't know that I agree. Simply speaking, the vast majority of cryptography work has nothing to do with tomfoolery to prevent side channels-- even if we're d

I don't know that I agree. Simply speaking, the vast majority of cryptography work has nothing to do with tomfoolery to prevent side channels-- even if we're doing low-level fundamental algorithm stuff, which most of the time cryptographers are not doing. (When's the last time you thought about AES in detail?) The way people stumble is in protocol errors and fundamental errors of composition.