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In this work, we take the first step towards formal verification of Remote Attestation (RA) by designing and verifying an architecture called VRASED: Verifiable Remote Attestation for Simple Embedded Devices. VRASED instantiates a hybrid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Karim Eldefrawy , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Michael Steiner , Gene Tsudik

The introduction of remote attestation (RA) schemes has allowed academia and industry to enhance the security of their systems. The commercial products currently available enable only the validation of static properties, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Flavio Toffalini , Eleonora Losiouk , Andrea Biondo , Jianying Zhou , Mauro Conti

Remote attestation is a crucial security service particularly relevant to increasingly popular IoT (and other embedded) devices. It allows a trusted party (verifier) to learn the state of a remote, and potentially malware-infected, device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Tigist Abera , N. Asokan , Lucas Davi , Jan-Erik Ekberg , Thomas Nyman , Andrew Paverd , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Gene Tsudik

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX), ensure the confidentiality and integrity of user applications when using cloud computing resources. However, in the multi-party cloud computing scenario,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Linan Tian , Yunke Shen , Zhiqiang Li

Attestation is a strong tool to verify the integrity of an untrusted system. However, in recent years, different attacks have appeared that are able to mislead the attestation process with treacherous practices as memory copy, proxy, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ignacio M. Delgado-Lozano , Macarena C. Martínez-Rodríguez , Alexandros Bakas , Billy Bob Brumley , Antonis Michalas

Recent IoT applications gradually adapt more complicated end systems with commodity software. Ensuring the runtime integrity of these software is a challenging task for the remote controller or cloud services. Popular enforcement is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yumei Zhang , Xinzhi Liu , Cong Sun , Dongrui Zeng , Gang Tan , Xiao Kan , Siqi Ma

Attestation means providing evidence that a remote target system is worthy of trust for some sensitive interaction. Although attestation is already used in network access control, security management, and trusted execution environments, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Will Thomas , Logan Schmalz , Adam Petz , Perry Alexander , Joshua D. Guttman , Paul D. Rowe , James Carter

Guaranteeing runtime integrity of embedded system software is an open problem. Trade-offs between security and other priorities (e.g., cost or performance) are inherent, and resolving them is both challenging and important. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Youngil Kim , Gene Tsudik

The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly expanded across various sectors, with consumer IoT devices - such as smart thermostats and security cameras - experiencing growth. Although these devices improve efficiency and promise additional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Pascal Schöttle , Matthias Janetschek , Florian Merkle , Martin Nocker , Christoph Egger

Remote attestation (RA) authenticates code running in trusted execution environments (TEEs), allowing trusted code to be deployed even on untrusted hosts. However, trust relationships established by one component in a distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Haofan Zheng , Owen Arden

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are vulnerable to malware and require new mitigation techniques due to their limited resources. To that end, previous research has used periodic Remote Attestation (RA) or Traffic Analysis (TA) to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Renascence Tarafder Prapty , Rahmadi Trimananda , Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Gene Tsudik , Athina Markopoulou

Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous because of its broad applications and the advance in communication technologies. The capabilities of IoT also enable its important role in homeland security and tactical missions, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Xi Hang Cao , Xiaojiang Du , E. Paul Ratazzi

Attestation is a fundamental building block to establish trust over software systems. When used in conjunction with trusted execution environments, it guarantees the genuineness of the code executed against powerful attackers and threats,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Jämes Ménétrey , Christian Göttel , Anum Khurshid , Marcelo Pasin , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni , Shahid Raza

Providing the ability to any law enforcement officer to remotely transfer an image from any suspect computer directly to a forensic laboratory for analysis, can only help to greatly reduce the time wasted by forensic investigators in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Mark Scanlon

Widespread adoption and growing popularity of embedded/IoT/CPS devices make them attractive attack targets. On low-to-mid-range devices, security features are typically few or none due to various constraints. Such devices are thus subject…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Seoyeon Hwang , Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Gene Tsudik

Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded. This makes them vulnerable to attacks and motivates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yizhou Luo , Kwan-Wu Chin , Ruyi Guan , Xi Xiao , Caimeng Wang , Jingyin Feng , Tengjiao He

Internet of Things (IoT) is a distributed communication technology system that offers the possibility for physical devices (e.g. vehicles home appliances sensors actuators etc.) known as Things to connect and exchange data more importantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Hosam Alamleh , Baker Al Smadi

Remote run-time attestation methods, including Control Flow Attestation (CFA) and Data Flow Attestation (DFA), have been proposed to generate precise evidence of execution's control flow path (in CFA) and optionally execution data inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Adam Caulfield , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

This paper presents LIRA-V, a lightweight system for performing remote attestation between constrained devices using the RISC-V architecture. We propose using read-only memory and the RISC-V Physical Memory Protection (PMP) primitive to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Carlton Shepherd , Konstantinos Markantonakis , Georges-Axel Jaloyan

We propose Remote Attestation with TOCTOU Avoidance (RATA): a provably secure approach to address the RA TOCTOU problem. With RATA, even malware that erases itself before execution of the next RA, can not hide its ephemeral presence. RATA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Gene Tsudik