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Data-driven intelligent applications in modern online services have become ubiquitous. These applications are usually hosted in the untrusted cloud computing infrastructure. This poses significant security risks since these applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Do Le Quoc , Franz Gregor , Sergei Arnautov , Roland Kunkel , Pramod Bhatotia , Christof Fetzer

Trusted-execution environments (TEE), like Intel SGX, isolate user-space applications into secure enclaves without trusting the OS. Thus, TEEs reduce the trusted computing base, but add one to two orders of magnitude slow-down. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Zhijingcheng Yu , Shweta Shinde , Trevor E. Carlson , Prateek Saxena

Decentralized smart contracts enable trustless collaboration but suffer from limited privacy and scalability, which hinders broader adoption. Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) based off-chain execution frameworks offer a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Keyu Zhang , Andrew Martin

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) isolate a special space within a device memory that is not accessible to the normal world (also known as the untrusted environment), even when the device is compromised. Therefore, developers can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ruidong Han , Zhou Yang , Chengyan Ma , Ye Liu , Yuqing Niu , Siqi Ma , Debin Gao , David Lo

A smart contract on a blockchain cannot keep a secret because its data is replicated on all nodes in a network. To remedy this problem, it has been suggested to combine blockchains with trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as Intel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Marcus Brandenburger , Christian Cachin , Rüdiger Kapitza , Alessandro Sorniotti

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are gradually adopted by major cloud providers, offering a practical option of \emph{confidential computing} for users who don't fully trust public clouds. TEEs use CPU-enabled hardware features to…

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) embedded in IoT devices provide a deployable solution to secure IoT applications at the hardware level. By design, in TEEs, the Trusted Operating System (Trusted OS) is the primary component. It enables…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Qinying Wang , Boyu Chang , Shouling Ji , Yuan Tian , Xuhong Zhang , Binbin Zhao , Gaoning Pan , Chenyang Lyu , Mathias Payer , Wenhai Wang , Raheem Beyah

Confidential containers protect cloud-native workloads using trusted execution environments (TEEs). However, existing Container-in-TEE designs (e.g., Confidential Containers (CoCo)) encapsulate the entire runtime within the TEE, inflating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Di Lu , Mengna Sun , Qingwen Zhang , Yujia Liu , Jia Zhang , Xuewen Dong , Yulong Shen , Jianfeng Ma

This paper presents C8s, a confidential computing architecture for Kubernetes that provides cryptographically rooted confidentiality, integrity, and verifiability guarantees for Kubernetes clusters from infrastructure operators. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Amean Asad , Patrick McClurg , João Andrade

Hardware-assisted trusted execution environments (TEEs) are critical building blocks of many modern applications. However, they have a one-way isolation model that introduces a semantic gap between a TEE and its outside world. This lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zahra Tarkhani , Anil Madhavapeddy

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are hardware-enforced memory isolation units, emerging as a pivotal security solution for security-critical applications. TEEs, like Intel SGX and ARM TrustZone, allow the isolation of confidential code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Abhiroop Sarkar , Robert Krook , Alejandro Russo , Koen Claessen

There is an urgent demand for privacy-preserving techniques capable of supporting compute and data intensive (CDI) computing in the era of big data. However, none of existing TEEs can truly support CDI computing tasks, as CDI requires high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jianping Zhu , Rui Hou , XiaoFeng Wang , Wenhao Wang , Jiangfeng Cao , Lutan Zhao , Fengkai Yuan , Peinan Li , Zhongpu Wang , Boyan Zhao , Lixin Zhang , Dan Meng

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

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

The TrustZone technology, available in the vast majority of recent ARM processors, allows the execution of code inside a so-called secure world. It effectively provides hardware-isolated areas of the processor for sensitive data and code,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Julien Amacher , Valerio Schiavoni

Confidential computing plays an important role in isolating sensitive applications from the vast amount of untrusted code commonly found in the modern cloud. We argue that it can also be leveraged to build safer and more secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wojciech Ozga , Guerney D. H. Hunt , Michael V. Le , Lennard Gäher , Avraham Shinnar , Elaine R. Palmer , Hani Jamjoom , Silvio Dragone

Large-scale systems that compute analytics over a fleet of devices must achieve high privacy and security standards while also meeting data quality, usability, and resource efficiency expectations. We present a next-generation federated…

This paper considers a federated learning system composed of a central coordinating server and multiple distributed local workers, all having access to trusted execution environments (TEEs). In order to ensure that the untrusted workers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Wensheng Zhang , Trent Muhr

For trusted execution environments (TEEs), remote attestation permits establishing trust in software executed on a remote host. It requires that the measurement of a remote TEE is both complete and fresh: We need to measure all aspects that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Franz Gregor , Robert Krahn , Do Le Quoc , Christof Fetzer