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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

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

This work presents Origami, which provides privacy-preserving inference for large deep neural network (DNN) models through a combination of enclave execution, cryptographic blinding, interspersed with accelerator-based computation. Origami…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Krishna Giri Narra , Zhifeng Lin , Yongqin Wang , Keshav Balasubramaniam , Murali Annavaram

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

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

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

Encrypted cloud storage can hide data contents but still leak sensitive information through access patterns. ORAM addresses this by hiding access patterns, but existing ORAM systems are too inefficient to deploy in practice. We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Onur Eren Arpaci , Florian Kerschbaum , Sujaya Maiyya

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

It is well known that encryption alone is not enough to protect data privacy. Access patterns, revealed when operations are performed, can also be leveraged in inference attacks. Oblivious RAM (ORAM) hides access patterns by making client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Robin Vassantlal , Hasan Heydari , Bernardo Ferreira , Alysson Bessani

A major algorithmic challenge in designing applications intended for secure remote execution is ensuring that they are oblivious to their inputs, in the sense that their memory access patterns do not leak sensitive information to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Simeon Krastnikov , Florian Kerschbaum , Douglas Stebila

Oblivious RAM (ORAM), introduced in the context of software protection by Goldreich and Ostrovsky [JACM'96], aims at obfuscating the memory access pattern induced by a RAM computation. Ideally, the memory access pattern of an ORAM should be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Pavel Hubáček , Michal Koucký , Karel Král , Veronika Slívová

We present a new oblivious RAM that supports variable-sized storage blocks (vORAM), which is the first ORAM to allow varying block sizes without trivial padding. We also present a new history-independent data structure (a HIRB tree) that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Daniel S. Roche , Adam J. Aviv , Seung Geol Choi

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

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) protocols are powerful techniques that hide a client's data as well as access patterns from untrusted service providers. We present an oblivious cloud storage system, ObliviSync, that specifically targets one of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Adam J. Aviv , Seung Geol Choi , Travis Mayberry , Daniel S. Roche

Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) allows a data owner to securely outsource its encrypted data to a cloud server while maintaining the ability to search over it and retrieve matched documents. Most existing SSE schemes leak which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Zhiwei Shang , Simon Oya , Andreas Peter , Florian Kerschbaum

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

Privacy-preserving computation techniques like homomorphic encryption (HE) and secure multi-party computation (SMPC) enhance data security by enabling processing on encrypted data. However, the significant computational and CPU-DRAM data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Mpoki Mwaisela

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

Demand for data-intensive workloads and confidential computing are the prominent research directions shaping the future of cloud computing. Computer architectures are evolving to accommodate the computing of large data better. Protecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Kha Dinh Duy , Hojoon Lee