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Third-party intellectual property cores are essential building blocks of modern system-on-chip and integrated circuit designs. However, these design components usually come from vendors of different trust levels and may contain undocumented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Wei Hu , Beibei Li , Lingjuan Wu , Yiwei Li , Xuefei Li , Liang Hong

With ever advancing in digital system, security has been emerged as a major concern. Many researchers all around the world come up with solutions to address various challenges that are crucial for industry and market. The aim of this survey…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Payman Behnam

Security in TrustZone-enabled heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) is gaining increasing attention for several years. Mainly because this type of SoC can be found in more and more applications in servers or in the cloud. The inside-SoC…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-16 El Mehdi Benhani , Cuauhtemoc Mancillas Lopez , Lilian Bossuet

Android banking applications have revolutionized financial management by allowing users to perform various financial activities through mobile devices. However, this convenience has attracted cybercriminals who exploit security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Wei Minn , Phong Phan , Vikas K. Malviya , Benjamin Adolphi , Yan Naing Tun , Henning Benzon Treichl , Albert Ching , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo

The kernel is the most safety- and security-critical component of many computer systems, as the most severe bugs lead to complete system crash or exploit. It is thus desirable to guarantee that a kernel is free from these bugs using formal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Olivier Nicole , Matthieu Lemerre , Sébastien Bardin , Xavier Rival

A major security challenge for modern Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is to ensure that the devices run legitimate firmware free from malware. This challenge can be addressed through a security primitive called attestation which allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Stefan Hristozov , Moritz Wettermann , Manuel Huber

Internet of Things (IoT) devices sit at the intersection of unwieldy software complexity and unprecedented attacker access. This unique position comes with a daunting security challenge: how can I protect both proprietary code and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Prakhar Sah , Matthew Hicks

Secure aggregation enables a group of mutually distrustful parties, each holding private inputs, to collaboratively compute an aggregate value while preserving the privacy of their individual inputs. However, a major challenge in adopting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Romain de Laage , Peterson Yuhala , François-Xavier Wicht , Pascal Felber , Christian Cachin , Valerio Schiavoni

Cloud computing is a ubiquitous solution to handle today's complex computing demands. However, it comes with data privacy concerns, as the cloud service provider has complete access to code and data running on their infrastructure. VM-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Luca Wilke , Gianluca Scopelliti

With current tools and technology, someone who has physical access to a chip can extract the detailed layout of the integrated circuit (IC). By using advanced visual imaging techniques, reverse engineering can reveal details that are meant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Maria I. Mera Collantes , Mohamed El Massad , Siddharth Garg

Boot firmware, like UEFI-compliant firmware, has been the target of numerous attacks, giving the attacker control over the entire system while being undetected. The measured boot mechanism of a computer platform ensures its integrity by…

The majority of systems rely on user authentication on passwords, but passwords have so many weaknesses and widespread use that easily raise significant security concerns, regardless of their encrypted form. Users hold the same password for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vassilis Papaspirou , Leandros Maglaras , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Ioanna Kantzavelou , Helge Janicke , Christos Douligeris

We present Argos, a simple approach for adding verifiability to fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes using trusted hardware. Traditional approaches to verifiable FHE require expensive cryptographic proofs, which incur an overhead of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jules Drean , Fisher Jepsen , Edward Suh , Srini Devadas , Aamer Jaleel , Gururaj Saileshwar

Negative-Bias Temperature Instability is a dominant aging mechanism in nanoscale CMOS circuits such as microprocessors. With this aging mechanism, the rate of device aging is dependent not only on overall operating conditions, such as heat,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Joshua Mashburn , Johann Knechtel , Florian Klemme , Hussam Amrouch , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Paul V. Gratz

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are used to protect sensitive data and run secure execution for security-critical applications, by providing an environment isolated from the rest of the system. However, over the last few years, TEEs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Sérgio Pereira , David Cerdeira , Cristiano Rodrigues , Sandro Pinto

Cheating is a real problem in the Internet of Things. The fundamental question that needs to be answered is how we can trust the validity of the data being generated in the first place. The problem, however, isn't inherent in whether or not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Yunpeng Zhang , Xuqing Wu

A Kubernetes cluster typically consists of trusted nodes, running within the confines of a physically secure datacenter. With recent advances in edge orchestration, this is no longer the case. This poses a new challenge: how can we trust a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Jordi Thijsman , Merlijn Sebrechts , Filip De Turck , Bruno Volckaert

Modern computer systems tend to rely on large trusted computing bases (TCBs) for operations. To address the TCB bloating problem, hardware vendors have developed mechanisms to enable or facilitate the creation of a trusted execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Rabimba Karanjai , Lei Xu , Lin Chen , Fengwei Zhang , Zhimin Gao , Weidong Shi

We propose a novel approach to improving software security called Cryptographic Path Hardening, which is aimed at hiding security vulnerabilities in software from attackers through the use of provably secure and obfuscated cryptographic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Vijay Ganesh , Michael Carbin , Martin Rinard

Trusted computing defines how to securely measure, store, and verify the integrity of software controlling a computer. One of the major challenges that make them hard to be applied in practice is the issue with software updates.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Wojciech Ozga , Do Le Quoc , Christof Fetzer