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It is well known that encryption alone is not enough to protect data privacy. Access patterns, revealed when operations are performed, can also be leveraged in inference attacks. Oblivious RAM (ORAM) hides access patterns by making client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Robin Vassantlal , Hasan Heydari , Bernardo Ferreira , Alysson Bessani

Motivated by the applications of secure multiparty computation as a privacy-protecting data analysis tool, and identifying oblivious transfer as one of its main practical enablers, we propose a practical realization of randomized quantum…

Personal AI systems increasingly retain long-term memory of user activity, including documents, emails, messages, meetings, and ambient recordings. Trusted hardware can keep this data private, but struggles to scale with a growing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Darya Kaviani , Alp Eren Ozdarendeli , Jinhao Zhu , Yu Ding , Raluca Ada Popa

Hardware enclaves such as Intel SGX are a promising technology for improving the security of databases outsourced to the cloud. These enclaves provide an execution environment isolated from the hypervisor/OS, and encrypt data in RAM.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Saba Eskandarian , Matei Zaharia

We present data-oblivious algorithms in the external-memory model for compaction, selection, and sorting. Motivation for such problems comes from clients who use outsourced data storage services and wish to mask their data access patterns.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-29 Michael T. Goodrich

As secure processors such as Intel SGX (with hyperthreading) become widely adopted, there is a growing appetite for private analytics on big data. Most prior works on data-oblivious algorithms adopt the classical PRAM model to capture…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Vijaya Ramachandran , Elaine Shi

Graph encryption schemes play a crucial role in facilitating secure queries on encrypted graphs hosted on untrusted servers. With applications spanning navigation systems, network topology, and social networks, the need to safeguard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Seyni Kane , Anis Bkakria

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a key technology for providing private storage and querying on untrusted machines but is commonly seen as impractical due to the high overhead of the re-randomization, called the eviction, the client incurs. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Raphael R. Toledo , George Danezis , Isao Echizen

The problem of Oblivious RAM (ORAM) has traditionally been studied in a single-server setting, but more recently the multi-server setting has also been considered. Yet it is still unclear whether the multi-server setting has any inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-05 T-H. Hubert Chan , Jonathan Katz , Kartik Nayak , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Elaine Shi

An oblivious data structure is a data structure where the memory access patterns reveals no information about the operations performed on it. Such data structures were introduced by Wang et al. [ACM SIGSAC'14] and are intended for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Riko Jacob , Kasper Green Larsen , Jesper Buus Nielsen

This paper presents the design and implementation of Obladi, the first system to provide ACID transactions while also hiding access patterns. Obladi uses as its building block oblivious RAM, but turns the demands of supporting transactions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Natacha Crooks , Matthew Burke , Ethan Cecchetti , Sitar Harel , Rachit Agarwal , Lorenzo Alvisi

The bounded storage model restricts the memory of an adversary in a cryptographic protocol, rather than restricting its computational power, making information theoretically secure protocols feasible. We present the first protocols for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Rafael Dowsley , Felipe Lacerda , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

We live in a world where our personal data are both valuable and vulnerable to misappropriation through exploitation of security vulnerabilities in online services. For instance, Dropbox, a popular cloud storage tool, has certain security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Nathan Wolfe , Ethan Zou , Ling Ren , Xiangyao Yu

We present a new oblivious RAM that supports variable-sized storage blocks (vORAM), which is the first ORAM to allow varying block sizes without trivial padding. We also present a new history-independent data structure (a HIRB tree) that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Daniel S. Roche , Adam J. Aviv , Seung Geol Choi

Access patterns to data stored remotely create a side channel that is known to leak information even if the content of the data is encrypted. To protect against access pattern leakage, Oblivious RAM is a cryptographic primitive that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 William Holland , Olga Ohrimenko , Anthony Wirth

Encrypted cloud storage can hide data contents but still leak sensitive information through access patterns. ORAM addresses this by hiding access patterns, but existing ORAM systems are too inefficient to deploy in practice. We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Onur Eren Arpaci , Florian Kerschbaum , Sujaya Maiyya

In this work, we investigate if statistical privacy can enhance the performance of ORAM mechanisms while providing rigorous privacy guarantees. We propose a formal and rigorous framework for developing ORAM protocols with statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Sameer Wagh , Paul Cuff , Prateek Mittal

Intel SGX has been a popular trusted execution environment (TEE) for protecting the integrity and confidentiality of applications running on untrusted platforms such as cloud. However, the access patterns of SGX-based programs can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-09 A K M Mubashwir Alam , Sagar Sharma , Keke Chen

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) allows a client to securely retrieve elements from outsourced servers without leakage about the accessed elements or their virtual addresses. Two-server ORAM, designed for secure two-party RAM computation, stores data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Wei Wang , Xianglong Zhang , Peng Xu , Rongmao Chen , Laurence Tianruo Yang

Opacity of Transactional Memory is proposed to be established by incremental validation. Quiescence in terms of epoch-based memory reclamation is applied to deal with doomed transactions causing memory access violations. This method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Holger Machens , Volker Turau