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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

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

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

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

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

This paper introduces OPTIMUM-DERAM, a highly consistent, scalable, secure, and decentralized shared memory solution. Traditional distributed shared memory implementations offer multi-object support by multi-threading a single object memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nicolas Nicolaou , Kishori M. Konwar , Moritz Grundei , Aleksandr Bezobchuk , Muriel Médard , Sriram Vishwanath

Multi-socket multi-core servers are used for solving some of the important problems in computing. Remote DRAM accesses can impact performance of certain applications running on such servers. This paper presents a new near linear operating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Suryanarayana Murthy Durbhakula

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

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) and private information retrieval (PIR) are classic cryptographic primitives used to hide the access pattern to data whose storage has been outsourced to an untrusted server. Unfortunately, both primitives require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Sarvar Patel , Giuseppe Persiano , Kevin Yeo

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

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

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

Intel SGX has been a popular trusted execution environment (TEE) for protecting the integrity and confidentiality of applications running on untrusted platforms such as cloud. However, the access patterns of SGX-based programs can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-09 A K M Mubashwir Alam , Sagar Sharma , Keke Chen

Write-Only Oblivious RAM (WoORAM) protocols provide privacy by encrypting the contents of data and also hiding the pattern of write operations over that data. WoORAMs provide better privacy than plain encryption and better performance than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Daniel S. Roche , Adam J. Aviv , Seung Geol Choi , Travis Mayberry

Secure aggregation usually aims at securely computing the sum of the inputs from $K$ users at a server. Noticing that the sum might inevitably reveal information about the inputs (when the inputs are non-uniform) and typically the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Hua Sun

Major chip manufacturers have all introduced multicore microprocessors. Multi-socket systems built from these processors are routinely used for running various server applications. Depending on the application that is run on the system,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Murthy Durbhakula

We live in a world where our personal data are both valuable and vulnerable to misappropriation through exploitation of security vulnerabilities in online services. For instance, Dropbox, a popular cloud storage tool, has certain security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Nathan Wolfe , Ethan Zou , Ling Ren , Xiangyao Yu

We study the problem of optimal location querying for location based services in road networks, which aims to find locations for new servers or facilities. The existing optimal solutions on this problem consider only the cases with one new…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Ruifeng Liu , Ada WaiChee Fu , Zitong Chen , Silu Huang , Yubao Liu

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

With oblivious transfer multiparty protocols become possible even in the presence of a faulty majority. But all known protocols can be aborted by just one disruptor. This paper presents more robust solutions for multiparty protocols with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. Mueller-Quade , H. Imai