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Hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are widely deployed in mobile devices. Yet their use has been limited primarily to applications developed by the device vendors. Recent standardization of TEE interfaces by GlobalPlatform…

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Data hosted in a cloud environment can be subject to attacks from a higher privileged adversary, such as a malicious or compromised cloud provider. To provide confidentiality and integrity even in the presence of such an adversary, a number…

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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…

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Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) provide hardware-enforced isolation that protects sensitive code and data from untrusted software. Despite their strong security guarantees, analyzing TEE applications remains challenging due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chengyan Ma , Jieke Shi , Ruidong Han , Ye Liu , Yuqing Niu , David Lo

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…

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Heterogeneous collaborative computing with NPU and CPU has received widespread attention due to its substantial performance benefits. To ensure data confidentiality and integrity during computing, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) is…

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We present DarkneTZ, a framework that uses an edge device's Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) in conjunction with model partitioning to limit the attack surface against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Increasingly, edge devices (smartphones…

Modern smartphones are complex systems in which control over phone resources is exercised by phone manufacturers, OS vendors, and users. These stakeholders have diverse and often competing interests. Barring some exceptions, users entrust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Friederike Groschupp , Mark Kuhne , Moritz Schneider , Ivan Puddu , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are rapidly emerging as a root-of-trust for protecting sensitive applications and data using hardware-backed isolated worlds of execution. TEEs provide robust assurances regarding critical algorithm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Carlton Shepherd , Raja N. Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

Leveraging parallel hardware (e.g. GPUs) for deep neural network (DNN) training brings high computing performance. However, it raises data privacy concerns as GPUs lack a trusted environment to protect the data. Trusted execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yue Niu , Ramy E. Ali , Salman Avestimehr

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

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) are designed to protect the privacy and integrity of data in use. They enable secure data processing and sharing in peer-to-peer networks, such as vehicular ad hoc networks of autonomous vehicles,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ceren Kocaoğullar , Gustavo Petri , Dominic P. Mulligan , Derek Miller , Hugo J. M. Vincent , Shale Xiong , Alastair R. Beresford

Enclave deployments often fail to simultaneously be secure (e.g., resistant to side channel attacks), powerful (i.e., as fast as an off-the-shelf server), and flexible (i.e., unconstrained by development hurdles). In this paper, we present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Philipp Winter , Ralph Giles , Moritz Schafhuber , Hamed Haddadi

ARM TrustZone technology is widely used to provide Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) for mobile devices. However, most TEE OSes are implemented as monolithic kernels. In such designs, device drivers, kernel services and kernel modules…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Dongxu Ji , Qianying Zhang , Shijun Zhao , Zhiping Shi , Yong Guan

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect confidentiality and integrity of trusted applications by creating an isolated environment for executing code. Prior work has shown that users may feel more comfortable sharing data when they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-27 McKenna McCall , Carolina Carreira , Miguel Flores , Lorrie Faith Cranor

The growing availability of hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) in commodity processors has recently advanced support (i.e., design, implementation and deployment frameworks) for network-based secure services. Examples of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Christian Göttel , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame , Wenting Li , Sergey Fedorov

When neural network model and data are outsourced to cloud server for inference, it is desired to preserve the confidentiality of model and data as the involved parties (i.e., cloud server, model providing client and data providing client)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Pinglan Liu , Wensheng Zhang