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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

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are crucial devices for implementing automated control in various industrial control systems (ICS), such as smart power grids, water treatment systems, manufacturing, and transportation systems. Owing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Zhiang Li , Daisuke Mashima , Wen Shei Ong , Ertem Esiner , Zbigniew Kalbarczyk , Ee-Chien Chang

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect confidentiality and integrity of trusted applications by creating an isolated environment for executing code. Prior work has shown that users may feel more comfortable sharing data when they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-27 McKenna McCall , Carolina Carreira , Miguel Flores , Lorrie Faith Cranor

In this paper we introduced countermeasures against side-channel attacks in the shared memory of TrustZone. We proposed zero-contention cache memory or policy between REE and TEE to prevent from TruSpy attacks in TrustZone. And we suggested…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Na-Young Ahn , Dong Hoon Lee

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

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) on third-party devices requires new ways to protect model intellectual property. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer a promising solution, their performance limits can lead to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Abhishek Saini , Haolin Jiang , Hang Liu

Blockchain technology promises to revolutionize manufacturing industries. For example, several supply-chain use-cases may benefit from transparent asset tracking and automated processes using smart contracts. Several real-world deployments…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Christina Müller , Marcus Brandenburger , Christian Cachin , Pascal Felber , Christian Göttel , Valerio Schiavoni

A number of trusted execution environments (TEEs) have been proposed by both academia and industry. However, most of them require specific hardware or firmware changes and are bound to specific hardware vendors (such as Intel, AMD, ARM, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yuekai Jia , Shuang Liu , Wenhao Wang , Yu Chen , Zhengde Zhai , Shoumeng Yan , Zhengyu He

Autonomous and robotic systems are increasingly being trusted with sensitive activities with potentially serious consequences if that trust is broken. Runtime verification techniques present a natural source of inspiration for monitoring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Robert Abela , Christian Colombo , Axel Curmi , Mattea Fenech , Mark Vella , Angelo Ferrando

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

Modern smartphones are complex systems in which control over phone resources is exercised by phone manufacturers, OS vendors, and users. These stakeholders have diverse and often competing interests. Barring some exceptions, users entrust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Friederike Groschupp , Mark Kuhne , Moritz Schneider , Ivan Puddu , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun

Over the past few years, several research groups have introduced innovative hardware designs for Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), aiming to secure applications against potentially compromised privileged software, including the kernel.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Gwenn Le Gonidec , Maria Méndez Real , Guillaume Bouffard , Jean-Christophe Prévotet

In the realm of mobile security, where OS-based protections have proven insufficient against robust attackers, Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged as a hardware-based security technology. Despite the industry's persistence in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Davide Bove

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) 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

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

Data theft and leakage, caused by external adversaries and insiders, demonstrate the need for protecting user data. Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer a promising solution by creating secure environments that protect data and code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kosei Akama , Yoshimichi Nakatsuka , Korry Luke , Masaaki Sato , Keisuke Uehara

Recent advances in secure hardware technologies, such as Intel SGX or ARM TrustZone, offer an opportunity to substantially reduce the costs of Byzantine fault-tolerance by placing the program code and state within a secure enclave known as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sadegh Keshavarzi , Gregory Chockler , Alexey Gotsman

TEE implementations on RISC-V offer an enclave abstraction by introducing a trusted component called the security monitor (SM). The SM performs critical tasks such as isolating enclaves from each other as well as from the OS by using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mark Kuhne , Stavros Volos , Shweta Shinde

Confidential Computing has emerged to address data security challenges in cloud-centric deployments by protecting data in use through hardware-level isolation. However, reliance on a single hardware root of trust (RoT) limits user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ketong Shang , Jiangnan Lin , Yu Qin , Muyan Shen , Hongzhan Ma , Wei Feng , Dengguo Feng