I have the same feeling... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-channel_attack#Countermea... mentions "isochronous" operations.

Oh interesting. I've heard isochronous in the context of real time communication but not here. Cool!

Or maybe "fixed-time". I don't like "isochronous" because it introduces an obtuse neoligism.

> I don't like "isochronous" because it introduces an obtuse neoligism.

Obtuse, perhaps, but neologism?

http://etymology.enacademic.com/20730/isochronous meaning "equal time" dating back to the early 1700s.

Case in point. I'm not an etymologist, nir should we expect people to have to research the words they use. If a word is that old and not in common parlance, it is a failure of a word and it really shouldn't be used.

> not in common parlance, it is a failure of a word

Harsh but not entirely unfair (it is, after all, how language evolves.) Although I'd counter that "isochron" isn't uncommon in travel-related situations (cf [1]) and "isochronous" is easily understandable by extension.

[1] e.g. in the UK parliament, #7927, "the resident population within the Woolwich 20-minute isochron area was about 60,000" https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmcr...

Yes, fixed-time! I like it.