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Intel(R) Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a hardware-based technology for ensuring security of sensitive data from disclosure or modification that enables user-level applications to allocate protected areas of memory called enclaves. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Rodolfo Silva , Pedro Barbosa , Andrey Brito

Intel has introduced a trusted computing technology, Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX), which provides an isolated and secure execution environment called enclave for a user program without trusting any privilege software (e.g., an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Jinwen Wang , Yueqiang Cheng , Qi Li , Yong Jiang

Intel SGX is known to be vulnerable to a class of practical attacks exploiting memory access pattern side-channels, notably page-fault attacks and cache timing attacks. A promising hardening scheme is to wrap applications in hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Yuzhe Tang , Kai Li , Yibo Wang , Jiaqi Chen , Cheng Xu

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are gaining popularity as an effective means to provide confidentiality in the cloud. TEEs, such as Intel SGX, suffer from so-called rollback and cloning attacks (often referred to as forking attacks).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Annika Wilde , Samira Briongos , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

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

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), are increasingly being adopted to address trust and compliance issues in the public cloud. Intel SGX's second generation (SGXv2) addresses many…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Adrian Lutsch , Muhammad El-Hindi , Matthias Heinrich , Daniel Ritter , Zsolt István , Carsten Binnig

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel SGX and ARM TrustZone, provide isolated regions of CPU and memory for secure computation and are increasingly used to protect sensitive data and code across diverse application domains.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuqing Niu , Jieke Shi , Ruidong Han , Ye Liu , Chengyan Ma , Yunbo Lyu , David Lo

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

Intel SGX enables memory isolation and static integrity verification of code and data stored in user-space memory regions called enclaves. SGX effectively shields the execution of enclaves from the underlying untrusted OS. Attackers cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Flavio Toffalini , Mathias Payer , Jianying Zhou , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Forking attacks against TEEs like Intel SGX can be carried out either by rolling back the application to a previous state, or by cloning the application and by partitioning its inputs across the cloned instances. Current solutions to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Samira Briongos , Ghassan Karame , Claudio Soriente , Annika Wilde

The widening availability of hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) has been accelerating the adaptation of new applications using TEEs. Recent studies showed that a cloud application consists of multiple distributed software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Joongun Park , Seunghyo Kang , Sanghyeon Lee , Taehoon Kim , Jongse Park , Youngjin Kwon , Jaehyuk Huh

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…

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX), are considered as a promising approach to resolve security challenges in clouds. TEEs protect the confidentiality and integrity of application code and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Robert Krahn , Donald Dragoti , Franz Gregor , Do Le Quoc , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber , Clenimar Souza , Andrey Brito , Christof Fetzer

Modern CPU architectures offer strong isolation guarantees towards user applications in the form of enclaves. For instance, Intel's threat model for SGX assumes fully trusted enclaves, yet there is an ongoing debate on whether this threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Michael Schwarz , Samuel Weiser , Daniel Gruss

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have been proposed as a solution to protect code confidentiality in scenarios where computation is outsourced to an untrusted operator. We study the resilience of such solutions to side-channel attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Ivan Puddu , Moritz Schneider , Daniele Lain , Stefano Boschetto , Srdjan Čapkun

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

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

Recent research has demonstrated that Intel's SGX is vulnerable to software-based side-channel attacks. In a common attack, the adversary monitors CPU caches to infer secret-dependent data accesses patterns. Known defenses have major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Ferdinand Brasser , Srdjan Capkun , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Tommaso Frassetto , Kari Kostiainen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi