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Trusted execution environments (TEE) such as Intel's Software Guard Extension (SGX) have been widely studied to boost security and privacy protection for the computation of sensitive data such as human genomics. However, a performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Chathura Widanage , Weijie Liu , Jiayu Li , Hongbo Chen , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Judy Fox

The popularity of the Java programming language has led to its wide adoption in cloud computing infrastructures. However, Java applications running in untrusted clouds are vulnerable to various forms of privileged attacks. The emergence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peterson Yuhala , Jämes Ménétrey , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni , Alain Tchana , Gaël Thomas , Hugo Guiroux , Jean-Pierre Lozi

Security and privacy concerns in computer systems have grown in importance with the ubiquity of connected devices. TEEs provide security guarantees based on cryptographic constructs built in hardware. Intel software guard extensions (SGX),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Rafael Pereira Pires

Python has become the most popular programming language as it is friendly to work with for beginners. However, a recent study has found that most security issues in Python have not been indexed by CVE and may only be fixed by 'silent'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shiyu Sun , Shu Wang , Xinda Wang , Yunlong Xing , Elisa Zhang , Kun Sun

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a promising hardware-based technology for protecting sensitive computations from potentially compromised system software. However, recent research has shown that SGX is vulnerable to branch-shadowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Shohreh Hosseinzadeh , Hans Liljestrand , Ville Leppänen , Andrew Paverd

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel SGX and ARM TrustZone, provide isolated regions of CPU and memory for secure computation and are increasingly used to protect sensitive data and code across diverse application domains.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuqing Niu , Jieke Shi , Ruidong Han , Ye Liu , Chengyan Ma , Yunbo Lyu , David Lo

Besides Intel's SGX technology, there are long-running discussions on how trusted computing technologies can be used to cloak malware. Past research showed example methods of malicious activities utilising Flicker, Trusted Platform Module,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Kubilay Ahmet Küçük , Steve Moyle , Andrew Martin , Alexandru Mereacre , Nicholas Allott

Intel has introduced a trusted computing technology, Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX), which provides an isolated and secure execution environment called enclave for a user program without trusting any privilege software (e.g., an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Jinwen Wang , Yueqiang Cheng , Qi Li , Yong Jiang

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enables user-level code to create private memory regions called enclaves, whose code and data are protected by the CPU from software and hardware attacks outside the enclaves. Recent work introduces…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Youren Shen , Hongliang Tian , Yu Chen , Kang Chen , Runji Wang , Yi Xu , Yubin Xia

Trusted executions environments (TEEs) such as Intel(R) SGX provide hardware-isolated execution areas in memory, called enclaves. By running only the most trusted application components in the enclave, TEEs enable developers to minimize the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Marcela S. Melara , Michael J. Freedman , Mic Bowman

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged as a cornerstone for securing sensitive computations by providing isolated enclaves protected from untrusted software. However, their security guarantees are undermined by vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Saltanat Firdous Allaqband , Deepanjali S , Rohit Srinivas R G , Devashish Gosain , Chester Rebeiro

Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions (Intel(R) SGX) is a promising technology to securely process information in otherwise untrusted environments. An important aspect of Intel SGX is the ability to perform remote attestation to assess the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Thomas Knauth , Michael Steiner , Somnath Chakrabarti , Li Lei , Cedric Xing , Mona Vij

As an emerging technique for confidential computing, trusted execution environment (TEE) receives a lot of attention. To better develop, deploy, and run secure applications on a TEE platform such as Intel's SGX, both academic and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Weijie Liu , Hongbo Chen , XiaoFeng Wang , Zhi Li , Danfeng Zhang , Wenhao Wang , Haixu Tang

Rust is a modern systems programming language that ensures memory safety by enforcing ownership and borrowing rules at compile time. While the unsafe keyword allows programmers to bypass these restrictions, it introduces significant risks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jialun Zhang , Merve Gulmez , Thomas Nyman , Gang Tan

The second version of Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), or SGX2, adds dynamic management of enclave memory and threads. The first version required the address space and thread counts to be fixed before execution. The Enclave…

Process-based confidential computing enclaves such as Intel SGX can be used to protect the confidentiality and integrity of workloads, without the overhead of virtualisation. However, they introduce a notable performance overhead,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jakob Svenningsson , Nicolae Paladi , Arash Vahidi

In modern computing environments, hardware resources are commonly shared, and parallel computation is widely used. Parallel tasks can cause privacy and security problems if proper isolation is not enforced. Intel proposed SGX to create a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Ahmad Moghimi , Gorka Irazoqui , Thomas Eisenbarth

Processing sensitive data, such as those produced by body sensors, on third-party untrusted clouds is particularly challenging without compromising the privacy of the users generating it. Typically, these sensors generate large quantities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Carlos Segarra , Ricard Delgado-Gonzalo , Mathieu Lemay , Pierre-Louis Aublin , Peter Pietzuch , Valerio Schiavoni

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