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This paper presents composable attestation as a generalized cryptographic framework for Continuous and Incremental Trust in Distributed Systems,such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) computation, and Open Source Software (OSS) supply chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sheng Sun , Sarah Evans

To ensure secure and trustworthy execution of applications, vendors frequently embed trusted execution environments into their systems. Here, applications are protected from adversaries, including a malicious operating system. TEEs are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Pascal Nasahl , Robert Schilling , Mario Werner , Stefan Mangard

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

While certified robustness is widely promoted as a solution to adversarial examples in Artificial Intelligence systems, significant challenges remain before these techniques can be meaningfully deployed in real-world applications. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Machine learning has become a critical component of modern data-driven online services. Typically, the training phase of machine learning techniques requires to process large-scale datasets which may contain private and sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Roland Kunkel , Do Le Quoc , Franz Gregor , Sergei Arnautov , Pramod Bhatotia , Christof Fetzer

In distributed systems, trust decisions are made on the basis of integrity evidence generated via remote attestation. Examples of the kinds of evidence that might be collected are boot time image hash values; fingerprints of initialization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ian D. Kretz , Clare C. Parran , John D. Ramsdell , Paul D. Rowe

Trusted execution environments like Intel SGX provide \emph{enclaves}, which offer strong security guarantees for applications. Running entire applications inside enclaves is possible, but this approach leads to a large trusted computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Peterson Yuhala , Pascal Felber , Hugo Guiroux , Jean-Pierre Lozi , Alain Tchana , Valerio Schiavoni , Gaël Thomas

Many security and software testing applications require checking whether certain properties of a program hold for any possible usage scenario. For instance, a tool for identifying software vulnerabilities may need to rule out the existence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Roberto Baldoni , Emilio Coppa , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Camil Demetrescu , Irene Finocchi

Truxen is a Trusted Computing enhanced blockchain that uses Proof of Integrity protocol as the consensus. Proof of Integrity protocol is derived from Trusted Computing and associated Remote Attestations, that can be used to vouch a node's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Chao Zhang

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

If blockchain networks are to become the building blocks of the infrastructure for the future digital economy, then several challenges related to the resiliency and survivability of blockchain networks need to be addressed. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Thomas Hardjono , Ned Smith

Security-critical tasks require proper isolation from untrusted software. Chip manufacturers design and include trusted execution environments (TEEs) in their processors to secure these tasks. The integrity and security of the software in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Yue Chen , Yulong Zhang , Zhi Wang , Tao Wei

Secure aggregation enables a group of mutually distrustful parties, each holding private inputs, to collaboratively compute an aggregate value while preserving the privacy of their individual inputs. However, a major challenge in adopting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Romain de Laage , Peterson Yuhala , François-Xavier Wicht , Pascal Felber , Christian Cachin , 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

Since its debut, SGX has been used in many applications, e.g., secure data processing. However, previous systems usually assume a trusted enclave and ignore the security issues caused by an untrusted enclave. For instance, a vulnerable (or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yuan Chen , Jiaqi Li , Guorui Xu , Yajin Zhou , Zhi Wang , Cong Wang , Kui Ren

The Android ecosystem relies on either TrustZone (e.g., OP-TEE, QTEE, Trusty) or trusted hypervisors (pKVM, Gunyah) to isolate security-sensitive services from malicious apps and Android bugs. TrustZone allows any secure world code to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Mark Kuhne , Supraja Sridhara , Andrin Bertschi , Nicolas Dutly , Srdjan Capkun , Shweta Shinde

The growing scalability demand of public Blockchains led to the rise of Layer-2 solutions, such as Rollups. Rollups improve transaction throughput by processing operations off-chain and posting the results on-chain. A critical component in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Giovanni Maria Cristiano , Salvatore D'Antonio , Jonah Giglio , Giovanni Mazzeo , Luigi Romano

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

We aim to provide trusted time measurement mechanisms to applications and cloud infrastructure deployed in environments that could harbor potential adversaries, including the hardware infrastructure provider. Despite Trusted Execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Gabriel P. Fernandez , Andrey Brito , Christof Fetzer

Recent years have witnessed a trend of secure processor design in both academia and industry. Secure processors with hardware-enforced isolation can be a solid foundation of cloud computation in the future. However, due to recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Deniz Gurevin , Chenglu Jin , Phuong Ha Nguyen , Omer Khan , Marten van Dijk