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Cloud platforms are widely adopted by many systems, such as time series processing systems, to store and process massive amounts of sensitive time series data. Unfortunately, several incidents have shown that cloud platforms are vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-30 K. Bagher , S. Cui , X. Yuan , C. Rudolph , X. Yi

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

Recent advances in Transformer models, e.g., large language models (LLMs), have brought tremendous breakthroughs in various artificial intelligence (AI) tasks, leading to their wide applications in many security-critical domains. Due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jiaqi Xue , Yifei Zhao , Mengxin Zheng , Fan Yao , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou

Decentralized smart contracts enable trustless collaboration but suffer from limited privacy and scalability, which hinders broader adoption. Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) based off-chain execution frameworks offer a promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Keyu Zhang , Andrew Martin

The classification service over a stream of data is becoming an important offering for cloud providers, but users may encounter obstacles in providing sensitive data due to privacy concerns. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Qifan Wang , Shujie Cui , Lei Zhou , Ocean Wu , Yonghua Zhu , Giovanni Russello

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

Time-Lock Puzzles (TLPs) enable a client to lock a message such that a server can unlock it only after a specified time. They have diverse applications, such as scheduled payments, secret sharing, and zero-knowledge proofs. In this work, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Aydin Abadi , Dan Ristea , Artem Grigor , Steven J. Murdoch

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

Hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are widely deployed in mobile devices. Yet their use has been limited primarily to applications developed by the device vendors. Recent standardization of TEE interfaces by GlobalPlatform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Brian McGillion , Tanel Dettenborn , Thomas Nyman , N. Asokan

The rapid evolution of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies has led to an emerging need to make it smarter. A variety of applications now run simultaneously on an ARM-based processor. For example, devices on the edge of the Internet are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Le Guan , Peng Liu , Xinyu Xing , Xinyang Ge , Shengzhi Zhang , Meng Yu , Trent Jaeger

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has led to growing concerns about data security and user privacy in the interactions within distributed systems. Decentralized Applications (DApps) in distributed systems consist…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiangyu Liu , Brian Lee , Yuansong Qiao

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

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

Benchmarks are important measures to evaluate safety and compliance of AI models at scale. However, they typically do not offer verifiable results and lack confidentiality for model IP and benchmark datasets. We propose Attestable Audits,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Christoph Schnabl , Daniel Hugenroth , Bill Marino , Alastair R. Beresford

Hardware-enclaves that target complex CPU designs compromise both security and performance. Programs have little control over micro-architecture, which leads to side-channel leaks, and then have to be transformed to have worst-case control-…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Sarbartha Banerjee , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Shijia Wei , Mohit Tiwari

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) serves as a hardware-based root of trust that protects cryptographic keys from privileged system and physical adversaries. In this work, we perform a black-box timing analysis of TPM 2.0 devices deployed on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Daniel Moghimi , Berk Sunar , Thomas Eisenbarth , Nadia Heninger

Modern computer systems tend to rely on large trusted computing bases (TCBs) for operations. To address the TCB bloating problem, hardware vendors have developed mechanisms to enable or facilitate the creation of a trusted execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Rabimba Karanjai , Lei Xu , Lin Chen , Fengwei Zhang , Zhimin Gao , Weidong Shi

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

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide an environment for running workloads in the cloud without having to trust cloud service providers, by offering additional hardware-assisted security guarantees. However, main memory encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jan Wichelmann , Anna Pätschke , Luca Wilke , Thomas Eisenbarth

Control Flow Attestation (CFA) offers a means to detect control flow hijacking attacks on remote devices, enabling verification of their runtime trustworthiness. CFA generates a trace (CFLog) containing the destination of all branching…

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