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Trust is arguably the most important challenge for critical services both deployed as well as accessed remotely over the network. These systems are exposed to a wide diversity of threats, ranging from bugs to exploits, active attacks, rogue…

Cloud computing is a ubiquitous solution to handle today's complex computing demands. However, it comes with data privacy concerns, as the cloud service provider has complete access to code and data running on their infrastructure. VM-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Luca Wilke , Gianluca Scopelliti

Cloud computing has emerged as a corner stone of today's computing landscape. More and more customers who outsource their infrastructure benefit from the manageability, scalability and cost saving that come with cloud computing. Those…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ferdinand Brasser , Patrick Jauernig , Frederik Pustelnik , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Emmanuel Stapf

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) isolate a special space within a device memory that is not accessible to the normal world (also known as the untrusted environment), even when the device is compromised. Therefore, developers can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ruidong Han , Zhou Yang , Chengyan Ma , Ye Liu , Yuqing Niu , Siqi Ma , Debin Gao , David Lo

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) suffer from performance issues when executing certain management instructions, such as creating an enclave, context switching in and out of protected mode, and swapping cached pages. This is especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 James Choncholas , Ketan Bhardwaj , Ada Gavrilovska

A smart contract on a blockchain cannot keep a secret because its data is replicated on all nodes in a network. To remedy this problem, it has been suggested to combine blockchains with trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as Intel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Marcus Brandenburger , Christian Cachin , Rüdiger Kapitza , Alessandro Sorniotti

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

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

Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) enhances the security of mobile applications and cloud services by isolating sensitive code in the secure world from the non-secure normal world. However, TEE applications are still confronted with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Chengyan Ma , Ruidong Han , Jieke Shi , Ye Liu , Yuqing Niu , Di Lu , Chuang Tian , Jianfeng Ma , Debin Gao , David Lo

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect sensitive code and data from the operating system, hypervisor, or other untrusted software. Different solutions exist, each proposing different features. Abstraction layers aim to unify the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Quentin Michaud , Sara Ramezanian , Dhouha Ayed , Olivier Levillain , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

Key-Value Stores (KVSs) are No-SQL databases that store data as key-value pairs and have gained popularity due to their simplicity, scalability, and fast retrieval capabilities. However, storing sensitive data in KVSs requires strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Aghiles Ait Messaoud , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Anthony Simonet-Boulogne

Over the past few years, several research groups have introduced innovative hardware designs for Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), aiming to secure applications against potentially compromised privileged software, including the kernel.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Gwenn Le Gonidec , Maria Méndez Real , Guillaume Bouffard , Jean-Christophe Prévotet

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) provide hardware-enforced isolation that protects sensitive code and data from untrusted software. Despite their strong security guarantees, analyzing TEE applications remains challenging due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chengyan Ma , Jieke Shi , Ruidong Han , Ye Liu , Yuqing Niu , David Lo

With the evolution of computer systems, the amount of sensitive data to be stored as well as the number of threats on these data grow up, making the data confidentiality increasingly important to computer users. Currently, with devices…

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are rapidly emerging as a root-of-trust for protecting sensitive applications and data using hardware-backed isolated worlds of execution. TEEs provide robust assurances regarding critical algorithm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Carlton Shepherd , Raja N. Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

The logic of many protocols relies on time measurements. However, in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like Intel SGX, the time source is outside the Trusted Computing Base: a malicious system hosting the TEE can manipulate that TEE's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Matthieu Bettinger , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Anthony Simonet-Boulogne

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

Recent advances in secure hardware technologies, such as Intel SGX or ARM TrustZone, offer an opportunity to substantially reduce the costs of Byzantine fault-tolerance by placing the program code and state within a secure enclave known as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sadegh Keshavarzi , Gregory Chockler , Alexey Gotsman

The big data industry is facing new challenges as concerns about privacy leakage soar. One of the remedies to privacy breach incidents is to encapsulate computations over sensitive data within hardware-assisted Trusted Execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Pei Wang , Yu Ding , Mingshen Sun , Huibo Wang , Tongxin Li , Rundong Zhou , Zhaofeng Chen , Yiming Jing

Data-driven intelligent applications in modern online services have become ubiquitous. These applications are usually hosted in the untrusted cloud computing infrastructure. This poses significant security risks since these applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Do Le Quoc , Franz Gregor , Sergei Arnautov , Roland Kunkel , Pramod Bhatotia , Christof Fetzer