Practice Makes (Im)Perfect: A Look Back at Benchmarking Practices for Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks

arXiv:2609.03893 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-09

Code: https://github.com/Naeele/Practice_Makes_-Im-Perfect---Artifacts

Terminology

Benchmark — 57× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Benchmarking — 47× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Core — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Information Leakage — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fingerprinting — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Artifact Evaluation — 3× in this paper
Generalizability — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
ARK — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Hamming Distance — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Inter-Processor Interrupt — 1× in this paper

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