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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

Code cloning is a common practice in software development, but it poses significant security risks by propagating vulnerabilities across cloned segments. To address this challenge, we introduce srcVul, a scalable, precise detection approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Hakam Alomari , Christopher Vendome , Hilal Gyawali

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

Today, machine learning is widely applied in sensitive, security-related, and financially lucrative applications. Model extraction attacks undermine current business models where a model owner sells model access, e.g., via MLaaS APIs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jonas Sander , Anja Rabich , Nick Mahling , Felix Maurer , Jonah Heller , Qifan Wang , Thomas Eisenbarth , David Oswald

The ever-rising computation demand is forcing the move from the CPU to heterogeneous specialized hardware, which is readily available across modern datacenters through disaggregated infrastructure. On the other hand, trusted execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Moritz Schneider , Aritra Dhar , Ivan Puddu , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun

Hardware-supported security mechanisms like Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) provide strong security guarantees, which are particularly relevant in cloud settings. However, their reliance on physical hardware conflicts with cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Fritz Alder , Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , N. Asokan

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

Code clones can detrimentally impact software maintenance and manually detecting them in very large codebases is impractical. Additionally, automated approaches find detection of Type 3 and Type 4 (inexact) clones very challenging. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Muslim Chochlov , Gul Aftab Ahmed , James Vincent Patten , Guoxian Lu , Wei Hou , David Gregg , Jim Buckley

Clone detection plays an important role in software engineering. Finding clones within a single project introduces possible refactoring opportunities, and between different projects it could be used for detecting code reuse or possible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yaroslav Golubev , Viktor Poletansky , Nikita Povarov , Timofey Bryksin

Cloud service providers are adopting Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to provide hardware-guaranteed security to applications running on remote, untrusted data centers. However, migrating such applications still relies on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sandeep Kumar , Abhisek Panda , Smruti R. Sarangi

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

The reuse of code fragments by copying and pasting is widely practiced in software development and results in code clones. Cloning is considered an anti-pattern as it negatively affects program correctness and increases maintenance efforts.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Hannes Thaller , Rudolf Ramler , Josef Pichler , Alexander Egyed

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

Since IoT systems provide services over the Internet, they must continue to operate safely even if malicious users attack them. Since the computational resources of edge devices connected to the IoT are limited, lightweight platforms and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Kentaro Ohno , Norihiro Yoshida , Wenqing Zhu , Hiroaki Takada

Detecting code clones is crucial in various software engineering tasks. In particular, code clone detection can have significant uses in the context of analyzing and fixing bugs in large scale applications. However, prior works, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Hongfa Xue , Yongsheng Mei , Kailash Gogineni , Guru Venkataramani , Tian Lan

Data hosted in a cloud environment can be subject to attacks from a higher privileged adversary, such as a malicious or compromised cloud provider. To provide confidentiality and integrity even in the presence of such an adversary, a number…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Mathias Morbitzer

Feature toggles enable developers to control feature states, allowing the features to be released to a limited group of users while preserving overall software functionality. The absence of comprehensive best practices for feature toggle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tajmilur Rahman , Mengzhe Fei , Tushar Sharma , Chanchal Roy

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises the benefits of reduced infrastructure, personnel, and management costs by outsourcing network middleboxes to the public or private cloud. Unfortunately, running network functions in the cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Dmitrii Kuvaiskii , Somnath Chakrabarti , Mona Vij

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…

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