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Only alphabet values in secret string is a bit misleading. #29

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When trying to develop my own spectre attack I keep running into cache line issues at different byte values.

It seems spectre attack is not very reliable for byte ranges from 0 to 255.

Doing a spectre attack for ascii values from A to Z and a to z is probably much easier and more reliable.

Thus I find this technique misleading, it's not very "generic".

I could be wrong about this, but you/anybody could prove me wrong, by changing the secret string to be more of a secret byte array (where the entire byte value range of 0 to 255 is used as secret values) and then trying to recover that instead.

For now I am willing to bet the spectre attack will fail under these conditions. Since some variables used will cause "false" cache line hits and thus through off results.

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