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Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a provable secure primitive to prevent access pattern leakage on the memory bus. It serves as the intermediate layer between the trusted on-chip components and the untrusted external memory systems to modulate the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Gang Liu , Kenli Li , Zheng Xiao , Rujia Wang

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

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

Many applications that benefit from data offload to cloud services operate on private data. A now-long line of work has shown that, even when data is offloaded in an encrypted form, an adversary can learn sensitive information by analyzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Midhul Vuppalapati , Kushal Babel , Anurag Khandelwal , Rachit Agarwal

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

Content providers increasingly utilise Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to enhance users' content download experience. However, this deployment scenario raises significant security concerns regarding content confidentiality and user privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Viet Vo , Shangqi Lai , Xingliang Yuan , Surya Nepal , Qi Li

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

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

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

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

Diffusion Models have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable capabilities in image generation, albeit at the cost of intensive computation requirement. Meanwhile, despite their widespread deployment in inference services such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Haoqi Wu , Wei Dai , Ming Xu , Li Wang , Qiang Yan

Trusted Execution Environments, such as Intel SGX, use hardware supports to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of applications against a compromised cloud system. However, side channels like access patterns remain for adversaries to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 AKM Mubashwir Alam , Justin Boyce , Keke Chen

Despite exciting progress on cryptography, secure and efficient query processing over outsourced data remains an open challenge. We develop a communication-efficient and information-theoretically secure system, entitled Obscure for…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Peeyush Gupta , Yin Li , Sharad Mehrotra , Nisha Panwar , Shantanu Sharma , Sumaya Almanee

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

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

Oblivious RAM protocols (ORAMs) allow a client to access data from an untrusted storage device without revealing the access patterns. Typically, the ORAM adversary can observe both read and write accesses. Write-only ORAMs target a more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Anrin Chakraborti , Radu Sion

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

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

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

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