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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

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

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Mathias Morbitzer

Cloud computing has emerged as a corner stone of today's computing landscape. More and more customers who outsource their infrastructure benefit from the manageability, scalability and cost saving that come with cloud computing. Those…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ferdinand Brasser , Patrick Jauernig , Frederik Pustelnik , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Emmanuel Stapf

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

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) are being used in all the devices from embedded sensors to cloud servers and encompass a range of cost, power constraints, and security threat model choices. On the other hand, each of the current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Dayeol Lee , David Kohlbrenner , Shweta Shinde , Dawn Song , Krste Asanović

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are gaining popularity as an effective means to provide confidentiality in the cloud. TEEs, such as Intel SGX, suffer from so-called rollback and cloning attacks (often referred to as forking attacks).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Annika Wilde , Samira Briongos , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

Web3 applications require execution platforms that maintain confidentiality and integrity without relying on centralized trust authorities. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer promising capabilities for confidential computing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shunfan Zhou , Kevin Wang , Hang Yin

The widening availability of hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) has been accelerating the adaptation of new applications using TEEs. Recent studies showed that a cloud application consists of multiple distributed software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Joongun Park , Seunghyo Kang , Sanghyeon Lee , Taehoon Kim , Jongse Park , Youngjin Kwon , Jaehyuk Huh

Confidential containers protect cloud-native workloads using trusted execution environments (TEEs). However, existing Container-in-TEE designs (e.g., Confidential Containers (CoCo)) encapsulate the entire runtime within the TEE, inflating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Di Lu , Mengna Sun , Qingwen Zhang , Yujia Liu , Jia Zhang , Xuewen Dong , Yulong Shen , Jianfeng Ma

Modern data centers have grown beyond CPU nodes to provide domain-specific accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs to their customers. From a security standpoint, cloud customers want to protect their data. They are willing to pay additional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Aritra Dhar , Supraja Sridhara , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun , Renzo Andri

Secure outsourced computation (SOC) provides secure computing services by taking advantage of the computation power of cloud computing and the technology of privacy computing (e.g., homomorphic encryption). Expanding computational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bowen Zhao , Jiuhui Li , Peiming Xu , Xiaoguo Li , Qingqi Pei , Yulong Shen

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

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

Applications running in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) commonly use untrusted external services such as host File System. Adversaries may maliciously alter the normal service behavior to trigger subtle application bugs that would…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Meni Orenbach , Bar Raveh , Alon Berkenstadt , Yan Michalevsky , Shachar Itzhaky , Mark Silberstein

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged at the forefront of edge computing to combat the lack of trust between system components. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are commonly used as edge computers but were not created…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Garrett Perkins , Benjamin Macht , Lucas Ritzdorf , Tristan Running Crane , Brock LaMeres , Clemente Izurieta , Ann Marie Reinhold

Confidential computing is a security paradigm that enables the protection of confidential code and data in a co-tenanted cloud deployment using specialized hardware isolation units called Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Abhiroop Sarkar , Alejandro Russo

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

Intel(r) Software Guard Extensions (SGX) was originally released on client platforms and later extended to single socket server platforms. As developers have become familiar with the capabilities of the technology, the applicability of this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Simon Johnson , Raghunandan Makaram , Amy Santoni , Vinnie Scarlata

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are used to protect sensitive data and run secure execution for security-critical applications, by providing an environment isolated from the rest of the system. However, over the last few years, TEEs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Sérgio Pereira , David Cerdeira , Cristiano Rodrigues , Sandro Pinto