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Mobile devices rely on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to execute security-critical code and protect sensitive assets. This security-critical code is modularized in components known as Trusted Applications (TAs). Vulnerabilities in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Philipp Mao , Li Shi , Marcel Busch , Mathias Payer

Security is one of the main challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT devices are mainly powered by low-cost microcontrollers (MCUs) that typically lack basic hardware security mechanisms to separate security-critical applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Daniel Oliveira , Tiago Gomes , Sandro Pinto

A number of trusted execution environments (TEEs) have been proposed by both academia and industry. However, most of them require specific hardware or firmware changes and are bound to specific hardware vendors (such as Intel, AMD, ARM, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yuekai Jia , Shuang Liu , Wenhao Wang , Yu Chen , Zhengde Zhai , Shoumeng Yan , Zhengyu He

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) on third-party devices requires new ways to protect model intellectual property. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer a promising solution, their performance limits can lead to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Abhishek Saini , Haolin Jiang , Hang Liu

Personal cryptographic keys are the foundation of many secure services, but storing these keys securely is a challenge, especially if they are used from multiple devices. Storing keys in a centralized location, like an Internet-accessible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , Mohammad Mannan , N. Asokan

With the increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, securing sensitive user data has emerged as a major challenge. These devices often collect confidential information, such as audio and visual data, through peripheral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Peterson Yuhala , Jämes Ménétrey , Pascal Felber , Marcelo Pasin , Valerio Schiavoni

Extreme edge computing (EEC) refers to the endmost part of edge computing wherein computational tasks and edge services are deployed only on extreme edge devices (EEDs). EEDs are consumer or user-owned devices that offer computational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Mhd Saria Allahham , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Hossam Hassanein

The growing complexity of modern computing platforms and the need for strong isolation protections among their software components has led to the increased adoption of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). While several commercial and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Moritz Schneider , Ramya Jayaram Masti , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun , Ronald Perez

Recent advances in Transformer models, e.g., large language models (LLMs), have brought tremendous breakthroughs in various artificial intelligence (AI) tasks, leading to their wide applications in many security-critical domains. Due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jiaqi Xue , Yifei Zhao , Mengxin Zheng , Fan Yao , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou

Hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are becoming increasingly prevalent in cloud computing, forming the basis for confidential computing. However, the security goals of TEEs sometimes conflict with existing cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yoshimichi Nakatsuka , Ercan Ozturk , Alex Shamis , Andrew Paverd , Peter Pietzuch

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged at the forefront of edge computing to combat the lack of trust between system components. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are commonly used as edge computers but were not created…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Garrett Perkins , Benjamin Macht , Lucas Ritzdorf , Tristan Running Crane , Brock LaMeres , Clemente Izurieta , Ann Marie Reinhold

Control Flow Attestation (CFA) offers a means to detect control flow hijacking attacks on remote devices, enabling verification of their runtime trustworthiness. CFA generates a trace (CFLog) containing the destination of all branching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Adam Caulfield , Antonio Joia Neto , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

Many safety-critical systems require timely processing of sensor inputs to avoid potential safety hazards. Additionally, to support useful application features, such systems increasingly have a large rich operating system (OS) at the cost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Richard Habeeb , Man-Ki Yoon , Hao Chen , Zhong Shao

Trusted execution environment (TEE) technology has found many applications in mitigating various security risks in an efficient manner, which is attractive for critical infrastructure protection. First, the natural of critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Rabimba Karanjai , Rowan Collier , Zhimin Gao , Lin Chen , Xinxin Fan , Taeweon Suh , Weidong Shi , Lei Xu

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are rapidly emerging as a root-of-trust for protecting sensitive applications and data using hardware-backed isolated worlds of execution. TEEs provide robust assurances regarding critical algorithm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Carlton Shepherd , Raja N. Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

With the increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, security concerns have become a major challenge: confidential information is constantly being transmitted (sometimes inadvertently) from user devices to untrusted cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Peterson Yuhala

Unauthorized data alteration has been a longstanding threat since the emergence of malware. System and application software can be reinstalled and hardware can be replaced, but user data is priceless in many cases. Especially in recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Lianying Zhao , Mohammad Mannan

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect sensitive code and data from the operating system, hypervisor, or other untrusted software. Different solutions exist, each proposing different features. Abstraction layers aim to unify the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Quentin Michaud , Sara Ramezanian , Dhouha Ayed , Olivier Levillain , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

Rollups have emerged as a promising approach to improving blockchains' scalability by offloading transactions execution off-chain. Existing rollup solutions either leverage complex zero-knowledge proofs or optimistically assume execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xiaoqing Wen , Quanbi Feng , Hanzheng Lyu , Jianyu Niu , Yinqian Zhang , Chen Feng

Secure outsourced computation (SOC) provides secure computing services by taking advantage of the computation power of cloud computing and the technology of privacy computing (e.g., homomorphic encryption). Expanding computational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bowen Zhao , Jiuhui Li , Peiming Xu , Xiaoguo Li , Qingqi Pei , Yulong Shen