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Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a promising hardware-based technology for protecting sensitive computations from potentially compromised system software. However, recent research has shown that SGX is vulnerable to branch-shadowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Shohreh Hosseinzadeh , Hans Liljestrand , Ville Leppänen , Andrew Paverd

Intel software guard extensions (SGX) aims to provide an isolated execution environment, known as an enclave, for a user-level process to maximize its confidentiality and integrity. In this paper, we study how uninitialized data inside a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Sangho Lee , Taesoo Kim

The latest generation of Intel processors supports Software Guard Extensions (SGX), a set of instructions that implements a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) right inside the CPU, by means of so-called enclaves. This paper presents…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Sébastien Vaucher , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber

A protocol for two-party secure function evaluation (2P-SFE) aims to allow the parties to learn the output of function $f$ of their private inputs, while leaking nothing more. In a sense, such a protocol realizes a trusted oracle that…

Intel's software guard extensions (SGX) provide hardware enclaves to guarantee confidentiality and integrity for sensitive code and data. However, systems leveraging such security mechanisms must often pay high performance overheads. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Peterson Yuhala , Michael Paper , Timothée Zerbib , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni , Alain Tchana

Enclaves have emerged as a particularly compelling primitive to implement trusted execution environments: strongly isolated sensitive user-mode processes in a largely untrusted software environment. While the threat models employed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Ilia Lebedev , Kyle Hogan , Jules Drean , David Kohlbrenner , Dayeol Lee , Krste Asanović , Dawn Song , Srinivas Devadas

Trusted execution environments (TEE) such as Intel's Software Guard Extension (SGX) have been widely studied to boost security and privacy protection for the computation of sensitive data such as human genomics. However, a performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Chathura Widanage , Weijie Liu , Jiayu Li , Hongbo Chen , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Judy Fox

Cloud providers are extending support for trusted hardware primitives such as Intel SGX. Simultaneously, the field of deep learning is seeing enormous innovation as well as an increase in adoption. In this paper, we ask a timely question:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Karan Grover , Shruti Tople , Shweta Shinde , Ranjita Bhagwan , Ramachandran Ramjee

Application size and complexity are the underlying cause of numerous security vulnerabilities in code. In order to mitigate the risks arising from such vulnerabilities, various techniques have been proposed to isolate the execution of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Ahmad Atamli-Reineh , Andrew Martin

Malware attacks are a significant part of the new software security threats detected each year. Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are a set of hardware instructions introduced by Intel in their recent lines of processors that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Vlad Crăciun , Pascal Felber , Andrei Mogage , Emanuel Onica , Rafael Pires

Modern intrusion detection systems (IDS) leverage graph neural networks (GNNs) to detect malicious activity in system provenance data, but their decisions often remain a black box to analysts. This paper presents a comprehensive XAI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Devang Dhanuka , Nidhi Rastogi

We explore the use of SGX enclaves as a means to improve the security of handling keys and data in storage systems. We study two main configurations for SGX computations, as they apply to performing data-at-rest encryption in a storage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Danny Harnik , Eliad Tsfadia , Doron Chen , Ronen Kat

Cloud computing offers resource-constrained users big-volume data storage and energy-consuming complicated computation. However, owing to the lack of full trust in the cloud, the cloud users prefer privacy-preserving outsourced data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wenxiu Ding , Wei Sun , Zheng Yan , Robert H. Deng

Side-channel risks of Intel's SGX have recently attracted great attention. Under the spotlight is the newly discovered page-fault attack, in which an OS-level adversary induces page faults to observe the page-level access patterns of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenhao Wang , Guoxing Chen , Xiaorui Pan , Yinqian Zhang , XiaoFeng Wang , Vincent Bindschaedler , Haixu Tang , Carl A. Gunter

We introduce a new timing side-channel attack on Intel CPU processors. Our Frontal attack exploits timing differences that arise from how the CPU frontend fetches and processes instructions while being interrupted. In particular, we observe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ivan Puddu , Moritz Schneider , Miro Haller , Srdjan Čapkun

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) provides a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run code and operate sensitive data. SGX provides runtime hardware protection where both code and data are protected even if other code components are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Alexander Nilsson , Pegah Nikbakht Bideh , Joakim Brorsson

Data provenance strives for explaining how the computation was performed by recording a trace of the execution. The provenance trace is useful across a wide-range of workflows to improve the dependability, security, and efficiency of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Jörg Thalheim , Pramod Bhatotia , Christof Fetzer

User programs recover from hardware exceptions and respond to signals by executing custom handlers that they register specifically for such events. We present SIGY attack, which abuses this programming model on Intel SGX to break the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Supraja Sridhara , Andrin Bertschi , Benedict Schlüter , Shweta Shinde

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises the benefits of reduced infrastructure, personnel, and management costs by outsourcing network middleboxes to the public or private cloud. Unfortunately, running network functions in the cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Dmitrii Kuvaiskii , Somnath Chakrabarti , Mona Vij

A trusted execution environment (TEE) such as Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) runs a remote attestation to prove to a data owner the integrity of the initial state of an enclave, including the program to operate on her data. For this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Weijie Liu , Wenhao Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Xiaozhu Meng , Yaosong Lu , Hongbo Chen , Xinyu Wang , Qingtao Shen , Kai Chen , Haixu Tang , Yi Chen , Luyi Xing