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A trusted execution environment (TEE) such as Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) runs a remote attestation to prove to a data owner the integrity of the initial state of an enclave, including the program to operate on her data. For this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Weijie Liu , Wenhao Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Xiaozhu Meng , Yaosong Lu , Hongbo Chen , Xinyu Wang , Qingtao Shen , Kai Chen , Haixu Tang , Yi Chen , Luyi Xing

Allowing a compromised device to receive privacy-sensitive sensor readings, or to operate a safety-critical actuator, carries significant risk. Usually, such risks are mitigated by validating the device's security state with remote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Mariam Moustafa , Arto Niemi , Philip Ginzboorg , Jan-Erik Ekberg

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

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) provide hardware-enforced isolation that protects sensitive code and data from untrusted software. Despite their strong security guarantees, analyzing TEE applications remains challenging due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chengyan Ma , Jieke Shi , Ruidong Han , Ye Liu , Yuqing Niu , David Lo

The ongoing trend of moving data and computation to the cloud is met with concerns regarding privacy and protection of intellectual property. Cloud Service Providers (CSP) must be fully trusted to not tamper with or disclose processed data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Luca Wilke , Jan Wichelmann , Florian Sieck , Thomas Eisenbarth

We propose a protocol that explores a synergy between two TEE implementations: it brings SGX-like remote attestation to SEV VMs. We use the notion of a \emph{trusted guest owner}, implemented as an SGX enclave, to deploy, attest, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Pedro Antonino , Ante Derek , Wojciech Aleksander Wołoszyn

In the rapidly evolving landscape of 5G technology, the adoption of cloud-based infrastructure for the deployment of 5G services has become increasingly common. Using a service-based architecture, critical 5G components, such as the Access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Al Nahian Bin Emran , Rajendra Upadhyay , Rajendra Paudyal , Lisa Donnan , Duminda Wijesekera

Confidential computing alleviates the concerns of distrustful customers by removing the cloud provider from their trusted computing base and resolves their disincentive to migrate their workloads to the cloud. This is facilitated by new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Anna Galanou , Khushboo Bindlish , Luca Preibsch , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Christof Fetzer , Rüdiger Kapitza

Confidential Computing enhances privacy of data in-use through hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) that use attestation to verify their integrity, authenticity, and certain runtime properties, along with those of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ceren Kocaoğullar , Tina Marjanov , Ivan Petrov , Ben Laurie , Al Cutter , Christoph Kern , Alice Hutchings , Alastair R. Beresford

Autonomous and robotic systems are increasingly being trusted with sensitive activities with potentially serious consequences if that trust is broken. Runtime verification techniques present a natural source of inspiration for monitoring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Robert Abela , Christian Colombo , Axel Curmi , Mattea Fenech , Mark Vella , Angelo Ferrando

Confidential Computing has emerged to address data security challenges in cloud-centric deployments by protecting data in use through hardware-level isolation. However, reliance on a single hardware root of trust (RoT) limits user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ketong Shang , Jiangnan Lin , Yu Qin , Muyan Shen , Hongzhan Ma , Wei Feng , Dengguo Feng

Kettle is an attested build system that produces cryptographically verifiable provenance for software built inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). A Kettle build records the source commit, dependency set, toolchain, build…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amean Asad , André Arko

We present Argos, a simple approach for adding verifiability to fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes using trusted hardware. Traditional approaches to verifiable FHE require expensive cryptographic proofs, which incur an overhead of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jules Drean , Fisher Jepsen , Edward Suh , Srini Devadas , Aamer Jaleel , Gururaj Saileshwar

Remote run-time attestation methods, including Control Flow Attestation (CFA) and Data Flow Attestation (DFA), have been proposed to generate precise evidence of execution's control flow path (in CFA) and optionally execution data inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Adam Caulfield , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

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

Remote attestation (RA) is a popular means of detecting malware in embedded and IoT devices. RA is usually realized as an interactive protocol, whereby a trusted party -- verifier -- measures integrity of a potentially compromised remote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Xavier Carpent , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Gene Tsudik

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) local and remote attestation mechanisms enable an enclave to attest its identity (i.e., the enclave measurement, which is the cryptographic hash of its initial code and data) to an enclave. To verify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Guoxing Chen , Yinqian Zhang

Attestation of documents like legal papers, professional qualifications, medical records, and commercial documents is crucial in global transactions, ensuring their authenticity, integrity, and trustworthiness. Companies expanding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Swapna Krishnakumar Radha , Andrey Kuehlkamp , Jarek Nabrzyski

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) such as ARM TrustZone are widely used in IoT and embedded devices to protect sensitive code and data. However, most existing defenses focus on secure boot or REE-side monitoring and provide little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingkai Mao , Xiaolin Chang

Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions (Intel(R) SGX) is a promising technology to securely process information in otherwise untrusted environments. An important aspect of Intel SGX is the ability to perform remote attestation to assess the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Thomas Knauth , Michael Steiner , Somnath Chakrabarti , Li Lei , Cedric Xing , Mona Vij