Comment by gautamb0

I tried reading the flush+reload paper several times, and watching a couple of the author's talks on it as well. I still haven't come out with a halfway decent understanding of how the timing attack works...which seems to be the most difficult and interesting part to me. It seems like its well understood in the security community, so it gets glossed over when referenced. How they actually manage to read data out of an evicted cache line remains a mystery to me.