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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

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are critical components of modern secure computing, providing isolated zones in processors to safeguard sensitive data and execute secure operations. Despite their importance, TEEs are increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Aaron Joy , Ben Soh , Zhi Zhang , Sri Parameswaran , Darshana Jayasinghe

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect confidentiality and integrity of trusted applications by creating an isolated environment for executing code. Prior work has shown that users may feel more comfortable sharing data when they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-27 McKenna McCall , Carolina Carreira , Miguel Flores , Lorrie Faith Cranor

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

Mobile devices rely on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to execute security-critical code and protect sensitive assets. This security-critical code is modularized in components known as Trusted Applications (TAs). Vulnerabilities in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Philipp Mao , Li Shi , Marcel Busch , Mathias Payer

A niche corner of the Web3 world is increasingly making use of hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to build decentralized infrastructure. One of the motivations to use TEEs is to go beyond the current performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sylvain Bellemare

Third-party security apps are an integral part of the Android app ecosystem. Many users install them as an extra layer of protection for their devices. There are hundreds of such security apps, both free and paid in Google Play Store and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Weixian Yao , Yexuan Li , Weiye Lin , Tianhui Hu , Imran Chowdhury , Rahat Masood , Suranga Seneviratne

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

The growing complexity of modern computing platforms and the need for strong isolation protections among their software components has led to the increased adoption of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). While several commercial and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Moritz Schneider , Ramya Jayaram Masti , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun , Ronald Perez

Most contemporary mobile devices offer hardware-backed storage for cryptographic keys, user data, and other sensitive credentials. Such hardware protects credentials from extraction by an adversary who has compromised the main operating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jenny Blessing , Ross J. Anderson , Alastair R. Beresford

Mobile devices are used more and more in everyday life. They are our cameras, wallets, and keys. Basically, they embed most of our private information in our pocket. For this and other reasons, mobile devices, and in particular the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Mario Linares-Vasquez , Gabriele Bavota , Camilo Escobar-Velasquez

Cryptography has been extensively used in Android applications to guarantee secure communications, conceal critical data from reverse engineering, or ensure mobile users' privacy. Various system-based and third-party libraries for Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Adam Janovsky , Davide Maiorca , Dominik Macko , Vashek Matyas , Giorgio Giacinto

Like many desktop operating systems in the 1990s, Android is now in the process of including support for multi-user scenarios. Because these scenarios introduce new threats to the system, we should have an understanding of how well the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Paul Ratazzi , Yousra Aafer , Amit Ahlawat , Hao Hao , Yifei Wang , Wenliang Du

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

Modern smartphones are complex systems in which control over phone resources is exercised by phone manufacturers, OS vendors, and users. These stakeholders have diverse and often competing interests. Barring some exceptions, users entrust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Friederike Groschupp , Mark Kuhne , Moritz Schneider , Ivan Puddu , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun

Android's open-source nature facilitates widespread smartphone accessibility, particularly in price-sensitive markets. System and vendor applications that come pre-installed on budget Android devices frequently operate with elevated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alioune Diallo , Anta Diop , Abdoul Kader Kabore , Jordan Samhi , Aleksandr Pilgun , Tegawendé F. Bissyande , Jacque Klein

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) have emerged at the forefront of edge computing to combat the lack of trust between system components. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are commonly used as edge computers but were not created…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Garrett Perkins , Benjamin Macht , Lucas Ritzdorf , Tristan Running Crane , Brock LaMeres , Clemente Izurieta , Ann Marie Reinhold
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