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The cloud-based environments in which today's and future quantum computers will operate, raise concerns about the security and privacy of user's intellectual property. Quantum circuits submitted to cloud-based quantum computer providers…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Theodoros Trochatos , Chuanqi Xu , Sanjay Deshpande , Yao Lu , Yongshan Ding , Jakub Szefer

As an emerging technique for confidential computing, trusted execution environment (TEE) receives a lot of attention. To better develop, deploy, and run secure applications on a TEE platform such as Intel's SGX, both academic and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Weijie Liu , Hongbo Chen , XiaoFeng Wang , Zhi Li , Danfeng Zhang , Wenhao Wang , Haixu Tang

Heterogeneous collaborative computing with NPU and CPU has received widespread attention due to its substantial performance benefits. To ensure data confidentiality and integrity during computing, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Husheng Han , Xinyao Zheng , Yuanbo Wen , Yifan Hao , Erhu Feng , Ling Liang , Jianan Mu , Xiaqing Li , Tianyun Ma , Pengwei Jin , Xinkai Song , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Xing Hu

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are a feature of modern central processing units (CPUs) that aim to provide a high assurance, isolated environment in which to run workloads that demand both confidentiality and integrity. Hardware and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Arttu Paju , Muhammad Owais Javed , Juha Nurmi , Juha Savimäki , Brian McGillion , Billy Bob Brumley

With the expansion of cloud services, serious concerns about the privacy of users' data arise due to the exposure of the unencrypted data to the server during computation. Various security primitives are under investigation to preserve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhehong Wang , Dennis Sylvester , Hun-Seok Kim , David Blaauw

The ongoing trend of moving data and computation to the cloud is met with concerns regarding privacy and protection of intellectual property. Cloud Service Providers (CSP) must be fully trusted to not tamper with or disclose processed data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Luca Wilke , Jan Wichelmann , Florian Sieck , Thomas Eisenbarth

Constructing a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on Field Programmable Gate Array System on Chip (FPGA-SoC) in Cloud can effectively protect users' private intel-lectual Property (IP) cores. In order to facilitate the wide-spread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jingkai Mao , Xiaolin Chang

The very DNA of AI architecture presents conflicting paths: centralized cloud-based models (Software-as-a-Service) versus decentralized edge AI (local processing on consumer devices). This paper analyzes the competitive battleground across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Rhea Pritham Marpu , Kevin J McNamara , Preeti Gupta

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC), later renamed ARC-AGI, poses a fundamental challenge in artificial general intelligence (AGI), requiring solutions that exhibit robust abstraction and reasoning capabilities across diverse tasks,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Etienne Guichard , Felix Reimers , Mia Kvalsund , Mikkel Lepperød , Stefano Nichele

Container runtimes provide a stable operational interface for deploying, monitoring, and controlling modern workloads, while trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide hardware-enforced isolation for sensitive computation. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Di Lu , Qingwen Zhang , Yujia Liu , Xuewen Dong , Yulong Shen , Zhiquan Liu , Jianfeng Ma

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

Anonymous credentials (ACs) are a crucial cryptographic tool for privacy-preserving authentication in decentralized networks, allowing holders to prove eligibility without revealing their identity. However, a major limitation of standard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Bin Xie , Rui Song , Xuyuan Cai

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) has become the gold standard for securing communications, bringing strong confidentiality and privacy guarantees to billions of users worldwide. However, the current push towards widespread integration of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mallory Knodel , Andrés Fábrega , Daniella Ferrari , Jacob Leiken , Betty Li Hou , Derek Yen , Sam de Alfaro , Kyunghyun Cho , Sunoo Park

AI agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious content hijacks agent behavior to steal credentials or cause financial loss. The only known robust defense is architectural isolation that strictly separates trusted task…

As hardware systems grow in complexity, security verification must keep up with them. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have started to play an important role in automating several stages of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Khan Thamid Hasan , Md Ajoad Hasan , Nashmin Alam , Md. Touhidul Islam , Upoma Das , Farimah Farahmandi

The proliferation of AI-assisted "vibe coding" enables rapid software development but introduces significant security risks, as Large Language Models (LLMs) prioritize functional correctness over security. We present Constitutional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Srinivas Rao Marri

Software control flow integrity (CFI) solutions have been applied to the Linux kernel for memory protection. Due to performance costs, deployed software CFI solutions are coarse grained. In this work, we demonstrate a precise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rémi Denis-Courmont , Hans Liljestrand , Carlos Chinea , Jan-Erik Ekberg

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) facilitate decentralized computations across trust boundaries. However, ensuring complex computations with low gas fees and confidentiality remains challenging. Recent advances in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Fernando Castillo , Jonathan Heiss , Sebastian Werner , Stefan Tai

This report evaluates the performance impact of enabling Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs for large language model (LLM) inference tasks. We benchmark the overhead introduced by TEE mode across various LLMs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jianwei Zhu , Hang Yin , Peng Deng , Aline Almeida , Shunfan Zhou

Processing sensitive data and deploying well-designed Intellectual Property (IP) cores on remote Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) are prone to private data leakage and IP theft. One effective solution is constructing Trusted Execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yanling Wang , Xiaolin Chang , Haoran Zhu , Jianhua Wang , Yanwei Gong , Lin Li