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So cache timing attacks increasing with table size? I thought the table was only for the authentication section. I guess that would be reversible to the key. Are there any papers on this?

I'm not exactly sure on the details of AES-GCM, but in general if you use secret data to influence either the data path (indexing tables), code path (branches) or timing (either branches or non-constant instructions) then your secret data should be considered compromised in a model allowing side channel attacks.

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