So the attack is (very basically, if I understand correctly)

Setup:

• I control at least one process on the machine I am targeting another process on
• I can send data to the target process and the process will decrypt that

Attack:

• I send data that in some intermediate state of decryption will look like a pointer
• This “pointer” contains some information about the secret key I am trying to steal
• The prefetcher does it’s thing loading the data “pointed to” in the cache
• I can observe via a cache side channel what the prefetcher did, giving me this “pointer” containing information about the secret key
• Repeat until I have gathered enough information about the secret key

Is this somewhat correct? Those speculative execution vulnerabilities always make my brain hurt a little