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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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Brian McGillion , Tanel Dettenborn , Thomas Nyman , N. Asokan

Hardware-enclaves that target complex CPU designs compromise both security and performance. Programs have little control over micro-architecture, which leads to side-channel leaks, and then have to be transformed to have worst-case control-…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Sarbartha Banerjee , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Shijia Wei , Mohit Tiwari

RISC-V-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are gaining traction in the automotive and IoT sectors as a foundation for protecting sensitive computations. However, the supporting infrastructure around these TEEs remains immature. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Annika Wilde , Samira Briongos , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

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

Hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are becoming increasingly prevalent in cloud computing, forming the basis for confidential computing. However, the security goals of TEEs sometimes conflict with existing cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yoshimichi Nakatsuka , Ercan Ozturk , Alex Shamis , Andrew Paverd , Peter Pietzuch

General-purpose operating systems (GPOS), such as Linux, encompass several million lines of code. Statistically, a larger code base inevitably leads to a higher number of potential vulnerabilities and inherently a more vulnerable system. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Samuel Pereira , Joao Sousa , Sandro Pinto , José Martins , David Cerdeira

Heterogeneous computing, which incorporates GPUs, NPUs, and FPGAs, is increasingly utilized to improve the efficiency of computer systems. However, this shift has given rise to significant security and privacy concerns, especially when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jiamin Shen , Yao Chen , Weng-Fai Wong , Ee-Chien Chang

In recent years, the widespread informatization and rapid data explosion have increased the demand for high-performance heterogeneous systems that integrate multiple computing cores such as CPUs, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qifan Wang , David Oswald

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

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

As an essential technology underpinning trusted computing, the trusted execution environment (TEE) allows one to launch computation tasks on both on- and off-premises data while assuring confidentiality and integrity. This article provides…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Xiaoguo Li , Bowen Zhao , Guomin Yang , Tao Xiang , Jian Weng , Robert H. Deng

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect sensitive code and data from the operating system, hypervisor, or other untrusted software. Different solutions exist, each proposing different features. Abstraction layers aim to unify the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Quentin Michaud , Sara Ramezanian , Dhouha Ayed , Olivier Levillain , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Husheng Han , Xinyao Zheng , Yuanbo Wen , Yifan Hao , Erhu Feng , Ling Liang , Jianan Mu , Xiaqing Li , Tianyun Ma , Pengwei Jin , Xinkai Song , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Xing Hu

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

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) are an integral part of modern secure processors. They ensure that their application and code pages are confidential, tamper proof and immune to diverse types of attacks. In 2021, Intel suddenly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Ani Sunny , Nivedita Shrivastava , Smruti R. Sarangi

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach that has emerged as an effective way to address recent privacy concerns. However, FL introduces the need for additional security measures as FL alone is still subject to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Bruno Casella

A niche corner of the Web3 world is increasingly making use of hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to build decentralized infrastructure. One of the motivations to use TEEs is to go beyond the current performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sylvain Bellemare

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

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