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Robust speech recognition systems rely on cloud service providers for inference. It needs to ensure that an untrustworthy provider cannot deduce the sensitive content in speech. Sanitization can be done on speech content keeping in mind…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Afsara Benazir , Felix Xiaozhu Lin

The majority of cloud providers offers users the possibility to deploy Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to protect their data and processes from high privileged adversaries. This offer is intended to address concerns of users when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Mathias Morbitzer , Benedikt Kopf , Philipp Zieris

Recent breakthroughs in text-to-speech (TTS) voice cloning have raised serious privacy concerns, allowing highly accurate vocal identity replication from just a few seconds of reference audio, while retaining the speaker's vocal…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Renyuan Li , Zhibo Liang , Haichuan Zhang , Tianyu Shi , Zhiyuan Cheng , Jia Shi , Carl Yang , Mingjie Tang

Quantum key distribution (QKD) offers the promise of absolutely secure communications. However, proofs of absolute security often assume perfect implementation from theory to experiment. Thus, existing systems may be prone to insidious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Samuel L. Braunstein , Stefano Pirandola

This paper presents SgxPectre Attacks that exploit the recently disclosed CPU bugs to subvert the confidentiality and integrity of SGX enclaves. Particularly, we show that when branch prediction of the enclave code can be influenced by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Guoxing Chen , Sanchuan Chen , Yuan Xiao , Yinqian Zhang , Zhiqiang Lin , Ten H. Lai

We explore the use of SGX enclaves as a means to improve the security of handling keys and data in storage systems. We study two main configurations for SGX computations, as they apply to performing data-at-rest encryption in a storage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Danny Harnik , Eliad Tsfadia , Doron Chen , Ronen Kat

Trusted execution environments (TEE) such as Intel's Software Guard Extension (SGX) have been widely studied to boost security and privacy protection for the computation of sensitive data such as human genomics. However, a performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Chathura Widanage , Weijie Liu , Jiayu Li , Hongbo Chen , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Judy Fox

Intel software guard extensions (SGX) aims to provide an isolated execution environment, known as an enclave, for a user-level process to maximize its confidentiality and integrity. In this paper, we study how uninitialized data inside a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Sangho Lee , Taesoo Kim

Cryptographic algorithm implementations are vulnerable to Cold Boot attacks, which consist in exploiting the persistence of RAM cells across reboots or power down cycles to read the memory contents and recover precious sensitive data. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Pierpaolo Santucci , Emiliano Ingrassia , Giulio Picierro , Marco Cesati

Modern multi-core processors share cache resources for maximum cache utilization and performance gains. However, this leaves the cache vulnerable to side-channel attacks, where timing differences in shared cache behavior are exploited to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Ghada Dessouky , Tommaso Frassetto , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Large Language Model (LLM) inference on edge Neural Processing Units (NPUs) is fundamentally constrained by limited on-chip memory capacity. Although high-density embedded DRAM (eDRAM) is attractive for storing activation workspaces, its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jintao Zhang , Xuanyao Fong

We present DarkneTZ, a framework that uses an edge device's Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) in conjunction with model partitioning to limit the attack surface against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Increasingly, edge devices (smartphones…

Side-channel risks of Intel's SGX have recently attracted great attention. Under the spotlight is the newly discovered page-fault attack, in which an OS-level adversary induces page faults to observe the page-level access patterns of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenhao Wang , Guoxing Chen , Xiaorui Pan , Yinqian Zhang , XiaoFeng Wang , Vincent Bindschaedler , Haixu Tang , Carl A. Gunter

There is an urgent demand for privacy-preserving techniques capable of supporting compute and data intensive (CDI) computing in the era of big data. However, none of existing TEEs can truly support CDI computing tasks, as CDI requires high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jianping Zhu , Rui Hou , XiaoFeng Wang , Wenhao Wang , Jiangfeng Cao , Lutan Zhao , Fengkai Yuan , Peinan Li , Zhongpu Wang , Boyan Zhao , Lixin Zhang , Dan Meng

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) provides a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run code and operate sensitive data. SGX provides runtime hardware protection where both code and data are protected even if other code components are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Alexander Nilsson , Pegah Nikbakht Bideh , Joakim Brorsson

Running LLMs on end devices has garnered significant attention recently due to their advantages in privacy preservation. With the advent of lightweight LLM models and specially designed GPUs, on-device LLM inference has achieved the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Huan Yang , Deyu Zhang , Yudong Zhao , Yuanchun Li , Yunxin Liu

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

Mobile devices have access to personal, potentially sensitive data, and there is a growing number of applications that transmit this personally identifiable information (PII) over the network. In this paper, we present the AntShield system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Anastasia Shuba , Evita Bakopoulou , Milad Asgari Mehrabadi , Hieu Le , David Choffnes , Athina Markopoulou

Operations on a pair of entangled qubits are conventionally presented as the application of the tensor product of operations. The tensor product is linearly extended to act synchronously across the entire entangled system. When simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 J. Joel vanBrandwijk , Abhishek Parakh

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