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This paper presents an approach to provide strong assurance of the secure execution of distributed event-driven applications on shared infrastructures, while relying on a small Trusted Computing Base. We build upon and extend security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Gianluca Scopelliti , Sepideh Pouyanrad , Job Noorman , Fritz Alder , Christoph Baumann , Frank Piessens , Jan Tobias Mühlberg

The ever-rising computation demand is forcing the move from the CPU to heterogeneous specialized hardware, which is readily available across modern datacenters through disaggregated infrastructure. On the other hand, trusted execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Moritz Schneider , Aritra Dhar , Ivan Puddu , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun

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

New types of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) architectures like TrustLite and Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are emerging. They bring new features that can lead to innovative security and privacy solutions. But each new TEE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Thomas Nyman , Brian McGillion , 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

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

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

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

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 (TEE), like Intel SGX, isolate user-space applications into secure enclaves without trusting the OS. Thus, TEEs reduce the trusted computing base, but add one to two orders of magnitude slow-down. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Zhijingcheng Yu , Shweta Shinde , Trevor E. Carlson , Prateek Saxena

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

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

The big data industry is facing new challenges as concerns about privacy leakage soar. One of the remedies to privacy breach incidents is to encapsulate computations over sensitive data within hardware-assisted Trusted Execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Pei Wang , Yu Ding , Mingshen Sun , Huibo Wang , Tongxin Li , Rundong Zhou , Zhaofeng Chen , Yiming Jing

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

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

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

RISC-V-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are gaining traction in the automotive and IoT sectors as a foundation for protecting sensitive computations. However, the supporting infrastructure around these TEEs remains immature. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Annika Wilde , Samira Briongos , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

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

A smart contract on a blockchain cannot keep a secret because its data is replicated on all nodes in a network. To remedy this problem, it has been suggested to combine blockchains with trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as Intel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Marcus Brandenburger , Christian Cachin , Rüdiger Kapitza , Alessandro Sorniotti

Recently, cloud control systems have gained increasing attention from the research community as a solution to implement networked cyber-physical systems (CPSs). Such an architecture can reduce deployment and maintenance costs albeit at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Amir Mohammad Naseri , Walter Lucia , Mohammad Mannan , Amr Youssef