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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

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

In recent years, the increasing awareness of cybersecurity has led to a heightened focus on information security within hardware devices and products. Incorporating Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) into product designs has become a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Chun-I Fan , Li-En Chang , Cheng-Han Shie

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) provide isolation guarantees for data in use, but their threat model does not include physical level protection and side-channel attacks. Therefore, current deployments rely on trusted cloud providers to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Filip Rezabek , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Moe Mahhouk , Frieder Erdmann , Andrew Miller

This paper presents an approach to provide strong assurance of the secure execution of distributed event-driven applications on shared infrastructures, while relying on a small Trusted Computing Base. We build upon and extend security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Gianluca Scopelliti , Sepideh Pouyanrad , Job Noorman , Fritz Alder , Christoph Baumann , Frank Piessens , Jan Tobias Mühlberg

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are gaining popularity as an effective means to provide confidentiality in the cloud. TEEs, such as Intel SGX, suffer from so-called rollback and cloning attacks (often referred to as forking attacks).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Annika Wilde , Samira Briongos , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are rapidly emerging as a root-of-trust for protecting sensitive applications and data using hardware-backed isolated worlds of execution. TEEs provide robust assurances regarding critical algorithm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Carlton Shepherd , Raja N. Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

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

Security is one of the main challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT devices are mainly powered by low-cost microcontrollers (MCUs) that typically lack basic hardware security mechanisms to separate security-critical applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Daniel Oliveira , Tiago Gomes , Sandro Pinto

Process mining techniques enable organizations to gain insights into their business processes through the analysis of execution records (event logs) stored by information systems. While most process mining efforts focus on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Davide Basile , Valerio Goretti , Luca Barbaro , Hajo A. Reijers , Claudio Di Ciccio

Container runtimes provide a stable operational interface for deploying, monitoring, and controlling modern workloads, while trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide hardware-enforced isolation for sensitive computation. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Di Lu , Qingwen Zhang , Yujia Liu , Xuewen Dong , Yulong Shen , Zhiquan Liu , Jianfeng Ma

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

Secure outsourced computation (SOC) provides secure computing services by taking advantage of the computation power of cloud computing and the technology of privacy computing (e.g., homomorphic encryption). Expanding computational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bowen Zhao , Jiuhui Li , Peiming Xu , Xiaoguo Li , Qingqi Pei , Yulong Shen

General-purpose operating systems (GPOS), such as Linux, encompass several million lines of code. Statistically, a larger code base inevitably leads to a higher number of potential vulnerabilities and inherently a more vulnerable system. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Samuel Pereira , Joao Sousa , Sandro Pinto , José Martins , David Cerdeira

Modern data centers have grown beyond CPU nodes to provide domain-specific accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs to their customers. From a security standpoint, cloud customers want to protect their data. They are willing to pay additional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Aritra Dhar , Supraja Sridhara , Shweta Shinde , Srdjan Capkun , Renzo Andri

The growing replication crisis across disciplines such as economics, finance, and other social sciences as well as computer science undermines the credibility of academic research. Current institutional solutions -- such as artifact…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiasun Li , Project Team

Large-scale systems that compute analytics over a fleet of devices must achieve high privacy and security standards while also meeting data quality, usability, and resource efficiency expectations. We present a next-generation federated…

In recent years, the widespread informatization and rapid data explosion have increased the demand for high-performance heterogeneous systems that integrate multiple computing cores such as CPUs, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qifan Wang , David Oswald

Platforms are nowadays typically equipped with tristed execution environments (TEES), such as Intel SGX and ARM TrustZone. However, recent microarchitectural attacks on TEEs repeatedly broke their confidentiality guarantees, including the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Dhiman Chakraborty , Michael Schwarz , Sven Bugiel