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Intel software guard extensions (SGX) aims to provide an isolated execution environment, known as an enclave, for a user-level process to maximize its confidentiality and integrity. In this paper, we study how uninitialized data inside a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Sangho Lee , Taesoo Kim

Cloud computing offers resource-constrained users big-volume data storage and energy-consuming complicated computation. However, owing to the lack of full trust in the cloud, the cloud users prefer privacy-preserving outsourced data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wenxiu Ding , Wei Sun , Zheng Yan , Robert H. Deng

Exceptions are a commodity hardware functionality which is central to multi-tasking OSes as well as event-driven user applications. Normally, the OS assists the user application by lifting the semantics of exceptions received from hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Jinhua Cui , Jason Zhijingcheng Yu , Shweta Shinde , Prateek Saxena , Zhiping Cai

Content-based routing (CBR) is a powerful model that supports scalable asynchronous communication among large sets of geographically distributed nodes. Yet, preserving privacy represents a major limitation for the wide adoption of CBR,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Rafael Pires , Marcelo Pasin , Pascal Felber , Christof Fetzer

Since its debut, SGX has been used in many applications, e.g., secure data processing. However, previous systems usually assume a trusted enclave and ignore the security issues caused by an untrusted enclave. For instance, a vulnerable (or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yuan Chen , Jiaqi Li , Guorui Xu , Yajin Zhou , Zhi Wang , Cong Wang , Kui Ren

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises the benefits of reduced infrastructure, personnel, and management costs by outsourcing network middleboxes to the public or private cloud. Unfortunately, running network functions in the cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Dmitrii Kuvaiskii , Somnath Chakrabarti , Mona Vij

Intel(R) Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a hardware-based technology for ensuring security of sensitive data from disclosure or modification that enables user-level applications to allocate protected areas of memory called enclaves. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Rodolfo Silva , Pedro Barbosa , Andrey Brito

Protected-module architectures (PMAs) have been proposed to provide strong isolation guarantees, even on top of a compromised system. Unfortunately, Intel SGX -- the only publicly available high-end PMA -- has been shown to only provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Raoul Strackx , Frank Piessens

Intel SGX (Software Guard Extension) is a promising TEE (trusted execution environment) technique that can protect programs running in user space from being maliciously accessed by the host operating system. Although it provides hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yang Chen , Jianfeng Jiang , Shoumeng Yan , Hui Xu

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) introduced new instructions to switch the processor to enclave mode which protects it from introspection. While the enclave mode strongly protects the memory and the state of the processor, it cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Tobias Cloosters , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi

Modern CPU architectures offer strong isolation guarantees towards user applications in the form of enclaves. For instance, Intel's threat model for SGX assumes fully trusted enclaves, yet there is an ongoing debate on whether this threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Michael Schwarz , Samuel Weiser , Daniel Gruss

A protocol for two-party secure function evaluation (2P-SFE) aims to allow the parties to learn the output of function $f$ of their private inputs, while leaking nothing more. In a sense, such a protocol realizes a trusted oracle that…

Intel SGX enables memory isolation and static integrity verification of code and data stored in user-space memory regions called enclaves. SGX effectively shields the execution of enclaves from the underlying untrusted OS. Attackers cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Flavio Toffalini , Mathias Payer , Jianying Zhou , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Hardware support for trusted execution in modern CPUs enables tenants to shield their data processing workloads in otherwise untrusted cloud environments. Runtime systems for the trusted execution must rely on an interface to the untrusted…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Christian Priebe , Divya Muthukumaran , Joshua Lind , Huanzhou Zhu , Shujie Cui , Vasily A. Sartakov , Peter Pietzuch

Beyond point solutions, the vision of edge computing is to enable web services to deploy their edge functions in a multi-tenant infrastructure present at the edge of mobile networks. However, edge functions can be rendered useless because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ketan Bhardwaj , Ming-Wei Shih , Ada Gavrilovska , Taesoo Kim , Chengyu Song

User programs recover from hardware exceptions and respond to signals by executing custom handlers that they register specifically for such events. We present SIGY attack, which abuses this programming model on Intel SGX to break the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Supraja Sridhara , Andrin Bertschi , Benedict Schlüter , Shweta Shinde

The latest generation of Intel processors supports Software Guard Extensions (SGX), a set of instructions that implements a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) right inside the CPU, by means of so-called enclaves. This paper presents…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Sébastien Vaucher , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), are increasingly being adopted to address trust and compliance issues in the public cloud. Intel SGX's second generation (SGXv2) addresses many…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Adrian Lutsch , Muhammad El-Hindi , Matthias Heinrich , Daniel Ritter , Zsolt István , Carsten Binnig

The deep learning revolution has been enabled in large part by GPUs, and more recently accelerators, which make it possible to carry out computationally demanding training and inference in acceptable times. As the size of machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sankha Baran Dutta , Hoda Naghibijouybari , Arjun Gupta , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Andres Marquez , Kevin Barker

Modern processors can offer hardware primitives that allow a process to run in isolation. These primitives implement a trusted execution environment (TEE) in which a program can run such that the integrity and confidentiality of its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Pedro Antonino , Wojciech Aleksander Wołoszyn , A. W. Roscoe