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Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have renewed interest in confidential analytics, but most prior evaluations focus on SQL database engines or earlier SGX generations. This paper studies an Arrow-native DataFrame engine, Polars, running…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wei Wang , Burns Smith , Kenny Leftin

Contact tracing is paramount to fighting the pandemic but it comes with legitimate privacy concerns. This paper proposes a system enabling both, contact tracing and data privacy. We propose the use of the Intel SGX trusted execution…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-26 David Sturzenegger , Aetienne Sardon , Stefan Deml , Thomas Hardjono

To mitigate interrupt-based stepping attacks (notably using SGX-Step), Intel introduced AEX-Notify, an ISA extension to Intel SGX that aims to prevent deterministic single-stepping. In this work, we introduce AEX-NStep, the first interrupt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nicolas Dutly , Friederike Groschupp , Ivan Puddu , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) local and remote attestation mechanisms enable an enclave to attest its identity (i.e., the enclave measurement, which is the cryptographic hash of its initial code and data) to an enclave. To verify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Guoxing Chen , Yinqian Zhang

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) are an integral part of modern secure processors. They ensure that their application and code pages are confidential, tamper proof and immune to diverse types of attacks. In 2021, Intel suddenly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Ani Sunny , Nivedita Shrivastava , Smruti R. Sarangi

Searchable encryption (SE) is one of the key enablers for building encrypted databases. It allows a cloud server to search over encrypted data without decryption. Dynamic SE additionally includes data addition and deletion operations to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Viet Vo , Shangqi Lai , Xingliang Yuan , Shi-Feng Sun , Surya Nepal , Joseph K. Liu

Fault-injection attacks have been proven in the past to be a reliable way of bypassing hardware-based security measures, such as cryptographic hashes, privilege and access permission enforcement, and trusted execution environments. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Zijo Kenjar , Tommaso Frassetto , David Gens , Michael Franz , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) offers software applications enclave to protect their confidentiality and integrity from malicious operating systems. The SSL/TLS protocol, which is the de facto standard for protecting transport-layer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Yuan Xiao , Mengyuan Li , Sanchuan Chen , Yinqian Zhang

The Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology enables applications to run in an isolated SGX enclave environment, with elevated confidentiality and integrity guarantees. Gramine Library OS facilitates execution of existing unmodified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Dmitrii Kuvaiskii , Gaurav Kumar , Mona Vij

Intel SGX has been a popular trusted execution environment (TEE) for protecting the integrity and confidentiality of applications running on untrusted platforms such as cloud. However, the access patterns of SGX-based programs can still be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-09 A K M Mubashwir Alam , Sagar Sharma , Keke Chen

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) such as \intelsgx facilitate the secure execution of an application on untrusted machines. Sadly, such environments suffer from serious limitations and performance overheads in terms of writing back…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Sandeep Kumar , Abhisek Panda , Smruti R. Sarangi

New hardware primitives such as Intel SGX secure a user-level process in presence of an untrusted or compromised OS. Such "enclaved execution" systems are vulnerable to several side-channels, one of which is the page fault channel. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Shweta Shinde , Zheng Leong Chua , Viswesh Narayanan , Prateek Saxena

Identifying the root cause and impact of a system intrusion remains a foundational challenge in computer security. Digital provenance provides a detailed history of the flow of information within a computing system, connecting suspicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Thomas Pasquier , Xueyuan Han , Thomas Moyer , Adam Bates , Olivier Hermant , David Eyers , Jean Bacon , Margo Seltzer

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

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

Hardware-enclaves that target complex CPU designs compromise both security and performance. Programs have little control over micro-architecture, which leads to side-channel leaks, and then have to be transformed to have worst-case control-…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Sarbartha Banerjee , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Shijia Wei , Mohit Tiwari

Enclaves, such as those enabled by Intel SGX, offer a powerful hardware isolation primitive for application partitioning. To become universally usable on future commodity OSes, enclave designs should offer compatibility with existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Shweta Shinde , Jinhua Cui , Satyaki Sen , Pinghai Yuan , Prateek Saxena

Trusted executions environments (TEEs) such as Intel(R) SGX provide hardware-isolated execution areas in memory, called enclaves. By running only the most trusted application components in the enclave, TEEs enable developers to minimize the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Marcela S. Melara , Michael J. Freedman , Mic Bowman

This work presents Origami, which provides privacy-preserving inference for large deep neural network (DNN) models through a combination of enclave execution, cryptographic blinding, interspersed with accelerator-based computation. Origami…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Krishna Giri Narra , Zhifeng Lin , Yongqin Wang , Keshav Balasubramaniam , Murali Annavaram

A promising approach for designing critical embedded systems is based on virtualization technologies and multi-core platforms. These enable the deployment of both real-time and general-purpose systems with different criticalities in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Luigi De Simone , Giovanni Mazzeo