English
Related papers

Related papers: SNPGuard: Remote Attestation of SEV-SNP VMs Using …

200 papers

In recent years, we have witnessed unprecedented growth in using hardware-assisted Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) or enclaves to protect sensitive code and data on commodity devices thanks to new hardware security features, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Md Armanuzzaman , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Ziming Zhao

A smart contract on a blockchain cannot keep a secret because its data is replicated on all nodes in a network. To remedy this problem, it has been suggested to combine blockchains with trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as Intel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Marcus Brandenburger , Christian Cachin , Rüdiger Kapitza , Alessandro Sorniotti

Modern society is increasingly surrounded by, and accustomed to, a wide range of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), and smart devices. They often perform safety-critical functions, e.g., personal medical devices,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Karim Eldefrawy , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Gene Tsudik

With the proliferation of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) such as Intel SGX, a number of cloud providers will soon introduce TEE capabilities within their offering (e.g., Microsoft Azure). Although the integration of SGX within the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame , Wenting Li , Sergey Fedorov

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) on low-power microcontrollers (e.g., ARM TrustZone-M) enable isolation of Secure and Non-Secure software but still require both worlds to share resources, including interrupt controllers. In this model,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Antonio Joia Neto , Amarin Laohajirapan , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

Recent years have witnessed a trend of secure processor design in both academia and industry. Secure processors with hardware-enforced isolation can be a solid foundation of cloud computation in the future. However, due to recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Deniz Gurevin , Chenglu Jin , Phuong Ha Nguyen , Omer Khan , Marten van Dijk

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

Entropy--a measure of randomness--is compulsory for the generation of secure cryptographic keys; however, Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are small or constrained often struggle to collect suf ficient entropy. In this article, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Arttu Paju , Juha Nurmi , Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya , Nicola Tuveri , Juha Savimäki , Marko Kivikangas , Brian McGillion

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a novel low-level bytecode format that swiftly gained popularity for its efficiency, versatility and security, with near-native performance. Besides, trusted execution environments (TEEs) shield critical software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Jämes Ménétrey , Marcelo Pasin , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

The blockchain-based smart contract lacks privacy since the contract state and instruction code are exposed to the public. Combining smart-contract execution with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) provides an efficient solution, called…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Rujia Li , Qin Wang , Qi Wang , David Galindo , Mark Ryan

In cloud computing, data processing is delegated to a remote party for efficiency and flexibility reasons. A practical user requirement usually is that the confidentiality and integrity of data processing needs to be protected. In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Lamya Abdullah , Felix Freiling , Juan Quintero , Zinaida Benenson

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) embedded in IoT devices provide a deployable solution to secure IoT applications at the hardware level. By design, in TEEs, the Trusted Operating System (Trusted OS) is the primary component. It enables…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Qinying Wang , Boyu Chang , Shouling Ji , Yuan Tian , Xuhong Zhang , Binbin Zhao , Gaoning Pan , Chenyang Lyu , Mathias Payer , Wenhai Wang , Raheem Beyah

Cloud computing offers resource-constrained users big-volume data storage and energy-consuming complicated computation. However, owing to the lack of full trust in the cloud, the cloud users prefer privacy-preserving outsourced data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Wenxiu Ding , Wei Sun , Zheng Yan , Robert H. Deng

Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) are used to safeguard on-device models. However, directly employing TEEs to secure the entire DNN model is challenging due to the limited computational speed. Utilizing GPU can accelerate DNN's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Ding Li , Ziqi Zhang , Mengyu Yao , Yifeng Cai , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

With the evolution of computer systems, the amount of sensitive data to be stored as well as the number of threats on these data grow up, making the data confidentiality increasingly important to computer users. Currently, with devices…

Over a past few decades, VM's or Virtual machines have sort of gained a lot of momentum, especially for large scale enterprises where the need for resource optimization & power save is humongous, without compromising with performance or…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Rohit Kewlani

Nowadays, enterprises widely deploy Network Functions (NFs) and server applications in the cloud. However, processing of sensitive data and trusted execution cannot be securely deployed in the untrusted cloud. Cloud providers themselves…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Spyridon Mastorakis , Tahrina Ahmed , Jayaprakash Pisharath

Software vulnerabilities remain a significant risk factor in achieving security objectives within software development organizations. This is especially true where either proprietary or open-source software (OSS) is included in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 James J. Cusick

Trusted I/O (TIO) is an appealing solution to improve I/O performance for confidential VMs (CVMs), with the potential to eliminate broad sources of I/O overhead. However, this paper emphasizes that not all types of I/O can derive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Mengyuan Li , Shashvat Srivastava , Mengjia Yan

Verifying computational processes in decentralized networks poses a fundamental challenge, particularly for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computations. Our investigation reveals significant limitations in existing approaches: exact…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Eric Boniardi , Stanley Bishop , Alison Haire