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In cloud databases, cloud computation over sensitive data uploaded by clients inevitably causes concern about data security and privacy. Even when encryption primitives and trusted computing environments are integrated into query processing…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Xiao Hu , Zhiang Wu

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

Write-Only Oblivious RAM (WoORAM) protocols provide privacy by encrypting the contents of data and also hiding the pattern of write operations over that data. WoORAMs provide better privacy than plain encryption and better performance than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Daniel S. Roche , Adam J. Aviv , Seung Geol Choi , Travis Mayberry

Oblivious RAM simulation is a method for achieving confidentiality and privacy in cloud computing environments. It involves obscuring the access patterns to a remote storage so that the manager of that storage cannot infer information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Michael T. Goodrich , Michael Mitzenmacher , Olga Ohrimenko , Roberto Tamassia

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), introduced in the context of software protection by Goldreich and Ostrovsky [JACM'96], aims at obfuscating the memory access pattern induced by a RAM computation. Ideally, the memory access pattern of an ORAM should be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Pavel Hubáček , Michal Koucký , Karel Král , Veronika Slívová

While non-volatile memories (NVMs) provide several desirable characteristics like better density and comparable energy efficiency than DRAM, DRAM-like performance, and disk-like durability, the limited endurance NVMs manifest remains a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yi Zheng , Aasheesh Kolli , Shaizeen Aga

Oblivious Transfer (OT) is a fundamental cryptographic protocol that finds a number of applications, in particular, as an essential building block for two-party and multi-party computation. We construct a round-optimal (2 rounds)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Paulo S. L. M. Barreto , Bernardo David , Rafael Dowsley , Kirill Morozov , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

Oblivious routing is an attractive paradigm for large distributed systems in which centralized control and frequent reconfigurations are infeasible or undesired (e.g., costly). Over the last almost 20 years, much progress has been made in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid

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

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

A major algorithmic challenge in designing applications intended for secure remote execution is ensuring that they are oblivious to their inputs, in the sense that their memory access patterns do not leak sensitive information to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Simeon Krastnikov , Florian Kerschbaum , Douglas Stebila

The combination of Oblivious RAM (ORAM) with Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) has found numerous real-world applications due to their complementary nature. TEEs alleviate the performance bottlenecks of ORAM, such as network bandwidth…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Leqian Zheng , Zheng Zhang , Wentao Dong , Yao Zhang , Ye Wu , Cong Wang

We consider Oblivious Shuffling and K-Oblivious Shuffling, a refinement thereof. We provide efficient algorithms for both and discuss their application to the design of Oblivious RAM. The task of K-Oblivious Shuffling is to obliviously…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sarvar Patel , Giuseppe Persiano , Kevin Yeo

Trusted processors provide a way to perform joint computations while preserving data privacy. To overcome the performance degradation caused by data-oblivious algorithms to prevent information leakage, we explore the benefits of oblivious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiping Yu , Xiaowei Zhu , Kun Chen , Guanyu Feng , Yunyi Chen , Xiaoyu Fan , Wenguang Chen

Oblivious transfer protocol is a basic building block in cryptography and is used to transfer information from a sender to a receiver in such a way that, at the end of the protocol, the sender does not know if the receiver got the message…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Souto , P. Mateus , P. Adão , N. Paunković

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

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in AI systems increasingly handles sensitive data on third-party infrastructure. Trusted execution environments (TEEs) offer protection, but cost-efficient deployments must rely on external SSDs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Deevashwer Rathee , Jean-Luc Watson , Zirui Neil Zhao , G. Edward Suh , Raluca Ada Popa

We present simple protocols for oblivious transfer and password-based identification which are secure against general attacks in the noisy-quantum-storage model as defined in [KWW09]. We argue that a technical tool from [KWW09] suffices to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Christian Schaffner

Commitment schemes are essential to many cryptographic protocols and schemes with applications that include privacy-preserving computation on data, privacy-preserving authentication, and, in particular, oblivious transfer protocols. For…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Thomas Lorünser , Sebastian Ramacher , Federico Valbusa