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Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) allow the secure execution of code on remote systems without the need to trust their operators. They use static attestation as a central mechanism for establishing trust, allowing remote parties to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Claudius Pott , Luca Wilke , Jan Wichelmann , Thomas Eisenbarth

We propose a protocol that explores a synergy between two TEE implementations: it brings SGX-like remote attestation to SEV VMs. We use the notion of a \emph{trusted guest owner}, implemented as an SGX enclave, to deploy, attest, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Pedro Antonino , Ante Derek , Wojciech Aleksander Wołoszyn

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) are a feature of modern central processing units (CPUs) that aim to provide a high assurance, isolated environment in which to run workloads that demand both confidentiality and integrity. Hardware and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Arttu Paju , Muhammad Owais Javed , Juha Nurmi , Juha Savimäki , Brian McGillion , Billy Bob Brumley

Integrity is critical for maintaining system security, as it ensures that only genuine software is loaded onto a machine. Although confidential virtual machines (CVMs) function within isolated environments separate from the host, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Wenhao Wang , Linke Song , Benshan Mei , Shuang Liu , Shijun Zhao , Shoumeng Yan , XiaoFeng Wang , Dan Meng , Rui Hou

Existing attestation mechanisms lack scalability and support for heterogeneous virtual execution environments (VEEs), such as virtual machines and containers executed inside or outside hardware isolation on different vendors' hardware in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Wojciech Ozga , Patricia Sagmeister , Tamás Visegrády , Silvio Dragone

Confidential computing plays an important role in isolating sensitive applications from the vast amount of untrusted code commonly found in the modern cloud. We argue that it can also be leveraged to build safer and more secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wojciech Ozga , Guerney D. H. Hunt , Michael V. Le , Lennard Gäher , Avraham Shinnar , Elaine R. Palmer , Hani Jamjoom , Silvio Dragone

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

The majority of cloud providers offers users the possibility to deploy Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to protect their data and processes from high privileged adversaries. This offer is intended to address concerns of users when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Mathias Morbitzer , Benedikt Kopf , Philipp Zieris

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

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

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

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol has become an integral part of modern Internet technology. Currently, it is the primary protocol for commercialized web applications. It can provide a fast, secure connection with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Gordon King , Hans Wang

As an emerging technique for confidential computing, trusted execution environment (TEE) receives a lot of attention. To better develop, deploy, and run secure applications on a TEE platform such as Intel's SGX, both academic and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Weijie Liu , Hongbo Chen , XiaoFeng Wang , Zhi Li , Danfeng Zhang , Wenhao Wang , Haixu Tang

A key feature in trusted computing is attestation, which allows encapsulated components (enclaves) to prove their identity to (local or remote) distrusting components. Reasoning about software that uses the technique requires tracking how…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 June Rousseau , Denis Carnier , Thomas Van Strydonck , Steven Keuchel , Dominique Devriese , Lars Birkedal

The Virtual Machine (VM)-based Trusted-Execution-Environment (TEE) technology, like AMD Secure-Encrypted-Virtualization (SEV), enables the establishment of Confidential VMs (CVMs) to protect data privacy. But CVM lacks ways to provide the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jingkai Mao , Haoran Zhu , Junchao Fan , Lin Li , Xiaolin Chang

The growth of cloud computing has revolutionized data processing and storage capacities to another levels of scalability and flexibility. But in the process, it has created a huge challenge of security, especially in terms of safeguarding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dhruv Deepak Agarwal , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) protect data in use by running workloads within hardware-enforced Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). However, existing CVM attestation mechanisms only certify what code is running, not where it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Filip Rezabek , Moe Mahhouk , Andrew Miller , Quintus Kilbourn , Georg Carle , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Interconnected embedded devices are increasingly used invarious scenarios, including industrial control, building automation, or emergency communication. As these systems commonly process sensitive information or perform safety critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Florian Kohnhäuser , Niklas Büscher , Sebastian Gabmeyer , Stefan Katzenbeisser

Customers of cloud services have to trust the cloud providers, as they control the building blocks that form the cloud. This includes the hypervisor enabling the sharing of a single hardware platform among multiple tenants. AMD Secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Robert Buhren , Christian Werling , Jean-Pierre Seifert