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Neither block ciphers, nor stream ciphers, nor common public key algorithms (RSA, Ed25519) need or even profit from this. They just need fast access to the register-register math, maybe loop sequentially through all members of a fixed sized array a fixed number of times. The only thing those implementing such algorithms would probably like having is a few kiB of safe to access scratchpad memory for code and data. On entry to the crypto code copy the code and data there, enable a constant time mode for compute instructions and run the algorithm at full speed without worrying.



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