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With the proliferation of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) such as Intel SGX, a number of cloud providers will soon introduce TEE capabilities within their offering (e.g., Microsoft Azure). Although the integration of SGX within the…

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Confidential computing is a security paradigm that enables the protection of confidential code and data in a co-tenanted cloud deployment using specialized hardware isolation units called Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). By…

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This paper presents SgxPectre Attacks that exploit the recently disclosed CPU bugs to subvert the confidentiality and integrity of SGX enclaves. Particularly, we show that when branch prediction of the enclave code can be influenced by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Guoxing Chen , Sanchuan Chen , Yuan Xiao , Yinqian Zhang , Zhiqiang Lin , Ten H. Lai

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

Cloud-based enterprise search services (e.g., AWS Kendra) have been entrancing big data owners by offering convenient and real-time search solutions to them. However, the problem is that individuals and organizations possessing confidential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Sakib M Zobaed , Mohsen Amini Salehi , Rajkumar Buyya

Ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of DNN accelerators is paramount across various scenarios spanning autonomous driving, healthcare, and finance. However, current security approaches typically require extensive hardware resources,…

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Private information retrieval (PIR) is an essential cryptographic protocol for privacy-preserving applications, enabling a client to retrieve a record from a server's database without revealing which record was requested. Single-server PIR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sangpyo Kim , Hyesung Ji , Jongmin Kim , Wonseok Choi , Jaiyoung Park , Jung Ho Ahn

Scientific computing sometimes involves computation on sensitive data. Depending on the data and the execution environment, the HPC (high-performance computing) user or data provider may require confidentiality and/or integrity guarantees.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ayaz Akram , Anna Giannakou , Venkatesh Akella , Jason Lowe-Power , Sean Peisert

Searchable Encryption (SE) enables users to query outsourced encrypted data while preserving data confidentiality. However, most efficient schemes still leak the search pattern and access pattern, which may allow an honest-but-curious cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jing Zhang , Ganxuan Yang , Yifei Yang , Siqi Wen , Zhengyang Qiu

A growing framework of legal and ethical requirements limit scientific and commercial evalua-tion of personal data. Typically, pseudonymization, encryption, or methods of distributed com-puting try to protect individual privacy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Nikolaus von Bomhard , Bernd Ahlborn , Catherine Mason , Ulrich Mansmann

In this paper, we introduce ACE, a consent-embedded searchable encryption scheme. ACE enables dynamic consent management by supporting the physical deletion of associated data at the time of consent revocation. This ensures instant real…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Sara Jafarbeiki , Amin Sakzad , Ron Steinfeld , Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi , Chandra Thapa , Yuki Kume

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and trusted execution environments (TEE) are two approaches to provide confidentiality during data processing. Each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses. In certain scenarios, computations can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Romain de Laage

Cloud providers are extending support for trusted hardware primitives such as Intel SGX. Simultaneously, the field of deep learning is seeing enormous innovation as well as an increase in adoption. In this paper, we ask a timely question:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Karan Grover , Shruti Tople , Shweta Shinde , Ranjita Bhagwan , Ramachandran Ramjee

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) such as \intelsgx facilitate the secure execution of an application on untrusted machines. Sadly, such environments suffer from serious limitations and performance overheads in terms of writing back…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Sandeep Kumar , Abhisek Panda , Smruti R. Sarangi

The growing adoption of IoT devices in our daily life is engendering a data deluge, mostly private information that needs careful maintenance and secure storage system to ensure data integrity and protection. Also, the prodigious IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Md Shihabul Islam , Mustafa Safa Ozdayi , Latifur Khan , Murat Kantarcioglu

Snowpark enables Data Engineering and AI/ML workloads to run directly within Snowflake by deploying a secure sandbox on virtual warehouse nodes. This Snowpark Execution Environment (SEE) allows users to execute arbitrary workloads in Python…

The proliferation of smart technologies and evolving privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CPRA has increased the need to manage fine-grained access control (FGAC) policies in database management systems (DBMSs). Existing approaches to…

FPGAs are now used in public clouds to accelerate a wide range of applications, including many that operate on sensitive data such as financial and medical records. We present ShEF, a trusted execution environment (TEE) for cloud-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Mark Zhao , Mingyu Gao , Christos Kozyrakis

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

Outsourcing a relational database to the cloud offers several benefits, including scalability, availability, and cost-effectiveness. However, there are concerns about the confidentiality and security of the outsourced data. A general…

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