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Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) local and remote attestation mechanisms enable an enclave to attest its identity (i.e., the enclave measurement, which is the cryptographic hash of its initial code and data) to an enclave. To verify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Guoxing Chen , Yinqian Zhang

Existing tools to detect side-channel attacks on Intel SGX are grounded on the observation that attacks affect the performance of the victim application. As such, all detection tools monitor the potential victim and raise an alarm if the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jianyu Jiang , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

Intel SGX enables memory isolation and static integrity verification of code and data stored in user-space memory regions called enclaves. SGX effectively shields the execution of enclaves from the underlying untrusted OS. Attackers cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Flavio Toffalini , Mathias Payer , Jianying Zhou , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Cloud computing offers resource-constrained users big-volume data storage and energy-consuming complicated computation. However, owing to the lack of full trust in the cloud, the cloud users prefer privacy-preserving outsourced data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wenxiu Ding , Wei Sun , Zheng Yan , Robert H. Deng

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

Intel SGX (Software Guard Extension) is a promising TEE (trusted execution environment) technique that can protect programs running in user space from being maliciously accessed by the host operating system. Although it provides hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yang Chen , Jianfeng Jiang , Shoumeng Yan , Hui Xu

Intel software guard extensions (SGX) aims to provide an isolated execution environment, known as an enclave, for a user-level process to maximize its confidentiality and integrity. In this paper, we study how uninitialized data inside a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Sangho Lee , Taesoo Kim

Intel's software guard extensions (SGX) provide hardware enclaves to guarantee confidentiality and integrity for sensitive code and data. However, systems leveraging such security mechanisms must often pay high performance overheads. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Peterson Yuhala , Michael Paper , Timothée Zerbib , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni , Alain Tchana

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

We provide enhanced security against insider attacks in services that manage extremely sensitive data. One example is a #MeToo use case where sexual harassment complaints are reported but only revealed when another complaint is filed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Danny Harnik , Paula Ta-Shma , Eliad Tsfadia

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

Intel SGX provisions shielded executions for security-sensitive computation, but lacks support for trusted system services (TSS), such as clock, network and filesystem. This makes \textit{enclaves} vulnerable to Iago…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Hongliang Liang , Mingyu Li , Qiong Zhang , Yue Yu , Lin Jiang , Yixiu Chen

Recent research has demonstrated that Intel's SGX is vulnerable to software-based side-channel attacks. In a common attack, the adversary monitors CPU caches to infer secret-dependent data accesses patterns. Known defenses have major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Ferdinand Brasser , Srdjan Capkun , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Tommaso Frassetto , Kari Kostiainen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

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…

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

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

New trusted computing primitives such as Intel SGX have shown the feasibility of running user-level applications in enclaves on a commodity trusted processor without trusting a large OS. However, the OS can still compromise the integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shweta Shinde , Shengyi Wang , Pinghai Yuan , Aquinas Hobor , Abhik Roychoudhury , Prateek Saxena

Intel SGX Guard eXtensions (SGX), a hardware-supported trusted execution environment (TEE), is designed to protect security-sensitive applications. However, since enclave applications are developed with memory unsafe languages such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Huibo Wang , Mingshen Sun , Qian Feng , Pei Wang , Tongxin Li , Yu Ding

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

Authenticated data storage on an untrusted platform is an important computing paradigm for cloud applications ranging from big-data outsourcing, to cryptocurrency and certificate transparency log. These modern applications increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yuzhe Tang , Ju Chen , Kai Li , Jianliang Xu , Qi Zhang