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Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a renowned technique to hide the access patterns of an application to an untrusted memory. According to the standard ORAM definition presented by Goldreich and Ostrovsky, two ORAM access sequences must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Syed Kamran Haider , Omer Khan , Marten van Dijk

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

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) and private information retrieval (PIR) are classic cryptographic primitives used to hide the access pattern to data whose storage has been outsourced to an untrusted server. Unfortunately, both primitives require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Sarvar Patel , Giuseppe Persiano , Kevin Yeo

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

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

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

We present Path ORAM, an extremely simple Oblivious RAM protocol with a small amount of client storage. Partly due to its simplicity, Path ORAM is the most practical ORAM scheme known to date with small client storage. We formally prove…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Emil Stefanov , Marten van Dijk , Elaine Shi , T-H. Hubert Chan , Christopher Fletcher , Ling Ren , Xiangyao Yu , Srinivas Devadas

Motivated by privacy preservation for outsourced data, data-oblivious external memory is a computational framework where a client performs computations on data stored at a semi-trusted server in a way that does not reveal her data to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Michael T. Goodrich , Joseph A. Simons

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

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

Data confidentiality is becoming a significant concern, especially in the cloud computing era. Memory access patterns have been demonstrated to leak critical information such as security keys and a program's spatial and temporal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Rachit Rajat , Yongqin Wang , Murali Annavaram

While Trusted Execution Environments provide a strong foundation for secure cloud computing, they remain vulnerable to access pattern leakages. Oblivious Maps (OMAPs) mitigate this by fully hiding access patterns but suffer from high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yitong Guo , Hongbo Chen , Haobin Hiroki Chen , Yukui Luo , XiaoFeng Wang , Chenghong Wang

We study oblivious storage (OS), a natural way to model privacy-preserving data outsourcing where a client, Alice, stores sensitive data at an honest-but-curious server, Bob. We show that Alice can hide both the content of her data and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-11 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 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

Suppose a client, Alice, has outsourced her data to an external storage provider, Bob, because he has capacity for her massive data set, of size n, whereas her private storage is much smaller--say, of size O(n^{1/r}), for some constant r >…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Michael T. Goodrich , Michael Mitzenmacher

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

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

Keystone is a trusted execution environment, based on RISC-V architecture. It divides the memory into a secure Keystone private memory and an unsecure non-Keystone memory, and allows code that lies inside the Keystone private memory to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Mriganka Shekhar Chakravarty , Biswabandan Panda

We study the problem of providing privacy-preserving access to an outsourced honest-but-curious data repository for a group of trusted users. We show that such privacy-preserving data access is possible using a combination of probabilistic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-05-23 Michael T. Goodrich , Michael Mitzenmacher , Olga Ohrimenko , Roberto Tamassia