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This paper proposes a system, entitled Concealer that allows sharing time-varying spatial data (e.g., as produced by sensors) in encrypted form to an untrusted third-party service provider to provide location-based applications (involving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Peeyush Gupta , Sharad Mehrotra , Shantanu Sharma , Nalini Venkatasubramanian , Guoxi Wang

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

The growth of cloud computing has revolutionized data processing and storage capacities to another levels of scalability and flexibility. But in the process, it has created a huge challenge of security, especially in terms of safeguarding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dhruv Deepak Agarwal , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

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

Security architectures providing Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have been an appealing research subject for a wide range of computer systems, from low-end embedded devices to powerful cloud servers. The goal of these architectures is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Raad Bahmani , Ferdinand Brasser , Ghada Dessouky , Patrick Jauernig , Matthias Klimmek , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Emmanuel Stapf

Confidential container is becoming increasingly popular as it meets both needs for efficient resource management by cloud providers, and data protection by cloud users. Specifically, confidential containers integrate the container and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Chulmin Lee , Jaewon Hur , Sangho Lee , Byoungyoung Lee

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

Intel SGX Guard eXtensions (SGX), a hardware-supported trusted execution environment (TEE), is designed to protect security-sensitive applications. However, since enclave applications are developed with memory unsafe languages such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Huibo Wang , Mingshen Sun , Qian Feng , Pei Wang , Tongxin Li , Yu Ding

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

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enables user-level code to create private memory regions called enclaves, whose code and data are protected by the CPU from software and hardware attacks outside the enclaves. Recent work introduces…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Youren Shen , Hongliang Tian , Yu Chen , Kang Chen , Runji Wang , Yi Xu , Yubin Xia

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

In recent years, we have witnessed unprecedented growth in using hardware-assisted Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) or enclaves to protect sensitive code and data on commodity devices thanks to new hardware security features, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Md Armanuzzaman , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Ziming Zhao

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

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

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

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

The use of TLS by malware poses new challenges to network threat detection because traditional pattern-matching techniques can no longer be applied to its messages. However, TLS also introduces a complex set of observable data features that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Blake Anderson , Subharthi Paul , David McGrew

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

Encrypting data before sending it to the cloud protects it against hackers and malicious insiders, but requires the cloud to compute on encrypted data. Trusted (hardware) modules, e.g., secure enclaves like Intel's SGX, can very efficiently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Andreas Fischer , Benny Fuhry , Florian Kerschbaum , Eric Bodden

Beyond point solutions, the vision of edge computing is to enable web services to deploy their edge functions in a multi-tenant infrastructure present at the edge of mobile networks. However, edge functions can be rendered useless because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ketan Bhardwaj , Ming-Wei Shih , Ada Gavrilovska , Taesoo Kim , Chengyu Song