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Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) provide isolation guarantees for data in use, but their threat model does not include physical level protection and side-channel attacks. Therefore, current deployments rely on trusted cloud providers to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Filip Rezabek , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Moe Mahhouk , Frieder Erdmann , Andrew Miller

Modern computer systems tend to rely on large trusted computing bases (TCBs) for operations. To address the TCB bloating problem, hardware vendors have developed mechanisms to enable or facilitate the creation of a trusted execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Rabimba Karanjai , Lei Xu , Lin Chen , Fengwei Zhang , Zhimin Gao , Weidong Shi

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

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

The growing complexity of modern computing platforms and the need for strong isolation protections among their software components has led to the increased adoption of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). While several commercial and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Moritz Schneider , Ramya Jayaram Masti , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun , Ronald Perez

Control-flow attestation unifies the worlds of control-flow integrity and platform attestation by measuring and reporting a target's run-time behaviour to a verifier. Trust assurances in the target are provided by testing whether its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zhanyu Sha , Carlton Shepherd , Amir Rafi , Konstantinos Markantonakis

In real-world scenarios, trusted execution environments (TEEs) frequently host applications that lack the trust of the infrastructure provider, as well as data owners who have specifically outsourced their data for remote processing. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jämes Ménétrey , Marcelo Pasin , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni , Giovanni Mazzeo , Arne Hollum , Darshan Vaydia

Confidential services running in hardware-protected Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) can provide higher security assurance, but this requires custom clients and protocols to distribute, update, and verify their attestation evidence.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Antoine Delignat-Lavaud , Cédric Fournet , Kapil Vaswani , Manuel Costa , Sylvan Clebsch , Christoph M. Wintersteiger

Large-scale systems that compute analytics over a fleet of devices must achieve high privacy and security standards while also meeting data quality, usability, and resource efficiency expectations. We present a next-generation federated…

Nowadays, enterprises widely deploy Network Functions (NFs) and server applications in the cloud. However, processing of sensitive data and trusted execution cannot be securely deployed in the untrusted cloud. Cloud providers themselves…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Spyridon Mastorakis , Tahrina Ahmed , Jayaprakash Pisharath

Verifying the private liquidity state of Lightning Network (LN) channels is desirable for auditors, service providers, and network participants who need assurance of financial capacity. Current methods often lack robustness against a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Vikash Singh , Barrett Little , Philip Hayes , Max Fang , Matthew Khanzadeh , Alyse Killeen , Sam Abbassi

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide an environment for running workloads in the cloud without having to trust cloud service providers, by offering additional hardware-assisted security guarantees. However, main memory encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jan Wichelmann , Anna Pätschke , Luca Wilke , Thomas Eisenbarth

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 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

The growing replication crisis across disciplines such as economics, finance, and other social sciences as well as computer science undermines the credibility of academic research. Current institutional solutions -- such as artifact…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiasun Li , Project Team

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

Personal cryptographic keys are the foundation of many secure services, but storing these keys securely is a challenge, especially if they are used from multiple devices. Storing keys in a centralized location, like an Internet-accessible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , Mohammad Mannan , N. Asokan

This paper presents C8s, a confidential computing architecture for Kubernetes that provides cryptographically rooted confidentiality, integrity, and verifiability guarantees for Kubernetes clusters from infrastructure operators. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Amean Asad , Patrick McClurg , João Andrade

The classification service over a stream of data is becoming an important offering for cloud providers, but users may encounter obstacles in providing sensitive data due to privacy concerns. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Qifan Wang , Shujie Cui , Lei Zhou , Ocean Wu , Yonghua Zhu , Giovanni Russello

Privacy and security-related concerns are growing as machine learning reaches diverse application domains. The data holders want to train with private data while exploiting accelerators, such as GPUs, that are hosted in the cloud. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Hanieh Hashemi , Yongqin Wang , Murali Annavaram