"Well stated.  The reason being, of course, that as there were more and more inputs on your paper, I had to scan through more and more of them to check you weren't repeating anything, especially if the input was just a few small digits with a particular pattern of positive and negative values.  I could, of course, lengthen all of my response times equally, to eliminate the information from this 'timing side-channel attack'.  I elected not to, because it was illustrating an important point."

"From the standpoint of the Law of Probability, any time you see evidence that's almost entirely what you expect, it's not producing much of a shift between hypotheses.  You were already expecting the 'YES' answers, so that part wasn't informative.  You might not have had any particular hypotheses about what was producing the timing differences, you might not have had the correct hypothesis; but you weren't already sure of what the timing would be like on each input, so by poking around there, you were gaining information faster than you could gain it from my, apparently, just always answering 'YES' to everything."

"Willa, you're one of the others who noticed the 'timing side-channel'.  How would you apply a similar line of reasoning to improving spellsilver mining?"

"Well stated.  The reason being, of course, that as there were more and more inputs on your paper, I had to scan through more and more of them to check you weren't repeating anything, especially if the input was just a few small digits with a particular pattern of positive and negative values.  I could, of course, lengthen all of my response times equally, to eliminate the information from this 'timing side-channel attack'.  I elected not to, because it was illustrating an important point."

"From the standpoint of the Law of Probability, any time you see evidence that's almost entirely what you expect, it's not producing much of a shift between hypotheses.  You were already expecting the 'YES' answers, so that part wasn't informative.  You might not have had any particular hypotheses about what was producing the timing differences, you might not have had the correct hypothesis; but you weren't already sure of what the timing would be like on each input, so by poking around there, you were gaining information faster than you could gain it from my, apparently, just always answering 'YES' to everything."

"Willa, you're one of the others who noticed the 'timing side-channel', or so it looked to me.  How would you apply a similar kind of reasoning to spellsilver mining?"

"Well stated.  The reason being, of course, that as there were more and more inputs on your paper, I had to scan through more and more of them to check you weren't repeating anything, especially if the input was just a few small digits with a particular pattern of positive and negative values.  I could, of course, lengthen all of my response times equally, to eliminate the information from this 'timing side-channel attack'.  I elected not to, because it was illustrating an important point."

"From the standpoint of the Law of Probability, any time you see evidence that's almost entirely what you expect, it's not producing much of a shift between hypotheses.  You were already expecting the 'YES' answers, so that part wasn't informative.  You might not have had the correct hypothesis about what was producing the timing differences, to see that it was being validated; but at least you weren't already sure of what the timing would be like on each input.  By poking around there, you were gaining information faster than you could gain it from my, apparently, just always answering 'YES' to everything."

"Willa, you're one of the others who noticed the 'timing side-channel', or so it looked to me.  How would you apply a similar kind of reasoning to spellsilver mining?"