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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

As Machine Learning (ML) gets applied to security-critical or sensitive domains, there is a growing need for integrity and privacy for outsourced ML computations. A pragmatic solution comes from Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 Florian Tramèr , Dan Boneh

To ensure secure and trustworthy execution of applications, vendors frequently embed trusted execution environments into their systems. Here, applications are protected from adversaries, including a malicious operating system. TEEs are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Pascal Nasahl , Robert Schilling , Mario Werner , Stefan Mangard

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) suffer from performance issues when executing certain management instructions, such as creating an enclave, context switching in and out of protected mode, and swapping cached pages. This is especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 James Choncholas , Ketan Bhardwaj , Ada Gavrilovska

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

Machine learning has become a critical component of modern data-driven online services. Typically, the training phase of machine learning techniques requires to process large-scale datasets which may contain private and sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Roland Kunkel , Do Le Quoc , Franz Gregor , Sergei Arnautov , Pramod Bhatotia , Christof Fetzer

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) are a feature of modern central processing units (CPUs) that aim to provide a high assurance, isolated environment in which to run workloads that demand both confidentiality and integrity. Hardware and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Arttu Paju , Muhammad Owais Javed , Juha Nurmi , Juha Savimäki , Brian McGillion , Billy Bob Brumley

Container runtimes provide a stable operational interface for deploying, monitoring, and controlling modern workloads, while trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide hardware-enforced isolation for sensitive computation. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Di Lu , Qingwen Zhang , Yujia Liu , Xuewen Dong , Yulong Shen , Zhiquan Liu , Jianfeng Ma

With the increasing deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) on mobile and edge platforms, securing them against model extraction attacks has become a pressing concern. However, protecting model privacy without sacrificing the performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tushar Nayan , Ziqi Zhang , Ruimin Sun

Secure Element (SE) in SoC sees an increasing adoption in industry. Many applications in IoT devices are bound to the SE because it provides strong cryptographic functions and physical protection. Though SE-in-SoC provides strong proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xuanle Ren , Xiaoxia Cui

Application security traditionally strongly relies upon security of the underlying operating system. However, operating systems often fall victim to software attacks, compromising security of applications as well. To overcome this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Samuel Weiser , Mario Werner

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have been proposed as a solution to protect code confidentiality in scenarios where computation is outsourced to an untrusted operator. We study the resilience of such solutions to side-channel attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Ivan Puddu , Moritz Schneider , Daniele Lain , Stefano Boschetto , Srdjan Čapkun

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) allow user processes to create enclaves that protect security-sensitive computation against access from the OS kernel and the hypervisor. Recent work has shown that TEEs are vulnerable to side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shujie Cui , Haohua Li , Yuanhong Li , Zhi Zhang , Lluís Vilanova , Peter Pietzuch

Protection of data-in-use is a key priority, for which Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology has unarguably emerged as a, possibly the most, promising solution. Multiple server-side TEE offerings have been released over the years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Luigi Coppolino , Salvatore D'Antonio , Davide Iasio , Giovanni Mazzeo , Luigi Romano

Trusted execution environments like Intel SGX provide \emph{enclaves}, which offer strong security guarantees for applications. Running entire applications inside enclaves is possible, but this approach leads to a large trusted computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Peterson Yuhala , Pascal Felber , Hugo Guiroux , Jean-Pierre Lozi , Alain Tchana , Valerio Schiavoni , Gaël Thomas

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed on mobile devices offer benefits like user privacy and reduced network latency, but introduce a significant security risk: the leakage of proprietary models to end users. To mitigate this risk, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xunjie Wang , Jiacheng Shi , Zihan Zhao , Yang Yu , Zhichao Hua , Jinyu Gu

New types of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) architectures like TrustLite and Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are emerging. They bring new features that can lead to innovative security and privacy solutions. But each new TEE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Nyman , Brian McGillion , N. Asokan