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Existing tools to detect side-channel attacks on Intel SGX are grounded on the observation that attacks affect the performance of the victim application. As such, all detection tools monitor the potential victim and raise an alarm if the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jianyu Jiang , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) introduced new instructions to switch the processor to enclave mode which protects it from introspection. While the enclave mode strongly protects the memory and the state of the processor, it cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Tobias Cloosters , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi

Trusted executions environments (TEEs) such as Intel(R) SGX provide hardware-isolated execution areas in memory, called enclaves. By running only the most trusted application components in the enclave, TEEs enable developers to minimize the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Marcela S. Melara , Michael J. Freedman , Mic Bowman

In this paper we propose a data dissemination platform that supports data security and different privacy levels even when the platform and the data are hosted by untrusted infrastructures. The proposed system aims at enabling an application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Lilia Sampaio , Fábio Silva , Amanda Souza , Andrey Brito , Pascal Felber

The Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology enables applications to run in an isolated SGX enclave environment, with elevated confidentiality and integrity guarantees. Gramine Library OS facilitates execution of existing unmodified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Dmitrii Kuvaiskii , Gaurav Kumar , Mona Vij

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enables user-level code to create private memory regions called enclaves, whose code and data are protected by the CPU from software and hardware attacks outside the enclaves. Recent work introduces…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Youren Shen , Hongliang Tian , Yu Chen , Kang Chen , Runji Wang , Yi Xu , Yubin Xia

In modern computing environments, hardware resources are commonly shared, and parallel computation is widely used. Parallel tasks can cause privacy and security problems if proper isolation is not enforced. Intel proposed SGX to create a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Ahmad Moghimi , Gorka Irazoqui , Thomas Eisenbarth

Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) offers software applications enclave to protect their confidentiality and integrity from malicious operating systems. The SSL/TLS protocol, which is the de facto standard for protecting transport-layer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Yuan Xiao , Mengyuan Li , Sanchuan Chen , Yinqian Zhang

Intel's software guard extensions (SGX) provide hardware enclaves to guarantee confidentiality and integrity for sensitive code and data. However, systems leveraging such security mechanisms must often pay high performance overheads. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Peterson Yuhala , Michael Paper , Timothée Zerbib , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni , Alain Tchana

A trusted execution environment (TEE) such as Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) runs a remote attestation to prove to a data owner the integrity of the initial state of an enclave, including the program to operate on her data. For this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Weijie Liu , Wenhao Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Xiaozhu Meng , Yaosong Lu , Hongbo Chen , Xinyu Wang , Qingtao Shen , Kai Chen , Haixu Tang , Yi Chen , Luyi Xing

Searchable encryption (SE) is one of the key enablers for building encrypted databases. It allows a cloud server to search over encrypted data without decryption. Dynamic SE additionally includes data addition and deletion operations to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Viet Vo , Shangqi Lai , Xingliang Yuan , Shi-Feng Sun , Surya Nepal , Joseph K. Liu

Hardware support for trusted execution in modern CPUs enables tenants to shield their data processing workloads in otherwise untrusted cloud environments. Runtime systems for the trusted execution must rely on an interface to the untrusted…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Christian Priebe , Divya Muthukumaran , Joshua Lind , Huanzhou Zhu , Shujie Cui , Vasily A. Sartakov , Peter Pietzuch

Hardware-enclaves that target complex CPU designs compromise both security and performance. Programs have little control over micro-architecture, which leads to side-channel leaks, and then have to be transformed to have worst-case control-…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Sarbartha Banerjee , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Shijia Wei , Mohit Tiwari

A promising approach for designing critical embedded systems is based on virtualization technologies and multi-core platforms. These enable the deployment of both real-time and general-purpose systems with different criticalities in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Luigi De Simone , Giovanni Mazzeo

Isolation is a long-standing challenge of software security. Traditional privilege rings and virtual memory are more and more augmented with concepts such as capabilities, protection keys, and powerful enclaves. At the same time, we are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Stefan Steinegger , David Schrammel , Samuel Weiser , Pascal Nasahl , Stefan Mangard

New trusted computing primitives such as Intel SGX have shown the feasibility of running user-level applications in enclaves on a commodity trusted processor without trusting a large OS. However, the OS can still compromise the integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shweta Shinde , Shengyi Wang , Pinghai Yuan , Aquinas Hobor , Abhik Roychoudhury , Prateek Saxena

Recent proliferation of embedded systems has generated a bold new paradigm, known as open embedded systems. While traditional embedded systems provide only closed base applications (natively-installed software) to users, open embedded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-30 Hiroaki Inoue

Enclaves have emerged as a particularly compelling primitive to implement trusted execution environments: strongly isolated sensitive user-mode processes in a largely untrusted software environment. While the threat models employed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Ilia Lebedev , Kyle Hogan , Jules Drean , David Kohlbrenner , Dayeol Lee , Krste Asanović , Dawn Song , Srinivas Devadas

Due to privacy concerns, multi-party gradient tree boosting algorithms have become widely popular amongst machine learning researchers and practitioners. However, limited existing works have focused on vertically partitioned datasets, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kennedy Edemacu , Beakcheol Jang , Jong Wook Kim

User programs recover from hardware exceptions and respond to signals by executing custom handlers that they register specifically for such events. We present SIGY attack, which abuses this programming model on Intel SGX to break the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Supraja Sridhara , Andrin Bertschi , Benedict Schlüter , Shweta Shinde