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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

The growth of cloud computing has revolutionized data processing and storage capacities to another levels of scalability and flexibility. But in the process, it has created a huge challenge of security, especially in terms of safeguarding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dhruv Deepak Agarwal , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

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

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

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

Web3 applications require execution platforms that maintain confidentiality and integrity without relying on centralized trust authorities. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer promising capabilities for confidential computing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shunfan Zhou , Kevin Wang , Hang Yin

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) are being used in all the devices from embedded sensors to cloud servers and encompass a range of cost, power constraints, and security threat model choices. On the other hand, each of the current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Dayeol Lee , David Kohlbrenner , Shweta Shinde , Dawn Song , Krste Asanović

Cloud computing has emerged as a corner stone of today's computing landscape. More and more customers who outsource their infrastructure benefit from the manageability, scalability and cost saving that come with cloud computing. Those…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ferdinand Brasser , Patrick Jauernig , Frederik Pustelnik , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Emmanuel Stapf

As an essential technology underpinning trusted computing, the trusted execution environment (TEE) allows one to launch computation tasks on both on- and off-premises data while assuring confidentiality and integrity. This article provides…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Xiaoguo Li , Bowen Zhao , Guomin Yang , Tao Xiang , Jian Weng , Robert H. Deng

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protect sensitive code and data from the operating system, hypervisor, or other untrusted software. Different solutions exist, each proposing different features. Abstraction layers aim to unify the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Quentin Michaud , Sara Ramezanian , Dhouha Ayed , Olivier Levillain , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX), are considered as a promising approach to resolve security challenges in clouds. TEEs protect the confidentiality and integrity of application code and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Robert Krahn , Donald Dragoti , Franz Gregor , Do Le Quoc , Valerio Schiavoni , Pascal Felber , Clenimar Souza , Andrey Brito , Christof Fetzer

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are gradually adopted by major cloud providers, offering a practical option of \emph{confidential computing} for users who don't fully trust public clouds. TEEs use CPU-enabled hardware features to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 AKM Mubashwir Alam , Keke Chen

Confidential containers protect cloud-native workloads using trusted execution environments (TEEs). However, existing Container-in-TEE designs (e.g., Confidential Containers (CoCo)) encapsulate the entire runtime within the TEE, inflating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Di Lu , Mengna Sun , Qingwen Zhang , Yujia Liu , Jia Zhang , Xuewen Dong , Yulong Shen , Jianfeng Ma

In TrustZone-assisted TEEs, the trusted OS has unrestricted access to both secure and normal world memory. Unfortunately, this architectural limitation has opened an aisle of exploration for attackers, which have demonstrated how to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-03 David Cerdeira , José Martins , Nuno Santos , Sandro Pinto

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

This paper presents C8s, a confidential computing architecture for Kubernetes that provides cryptographically rooted confidentiality, integrity, and verifiability guarantees for Kubernetes clusters from infrastructure operators. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Amean Asad , Patrick McClurg , João Andrade

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged as a cornerstone for securing sensitive computations by providing isolated enclaves protected from untrusted software. However, their security guarantees are undermined by vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Saltanat Firdous Allaqband , Deepanjali S , Rohit Srinivas R G , Devashish Gosain , Chester Rebeiro

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

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

The growing availability of hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) in commodity processors has recently advanced support (i.e., design, implementation and deployment frameworks) for network-based secure services. Examples of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Christian Göttel , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni
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