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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…

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High-confidence computing relies on trusted instructional set architecture, sealed kernels, and secure operating systems. Cloud computing depends on trusted systems for virtualization tasks. Branch predictions and pipelines are essential in…

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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

The cloud computing platform gives people the opportunity for sharing resources, services and information among the people of the whole world. In private cloud system, information is shared among the persons who are in that cloud. For this,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Kawser Wazed Nafi , Tonny Shekha Kar , Sayed Anisul Hoque , M. M. A. Hashem

Federated Learning and Analytics (FLA) have seen widespread adoption by technology platforms for processing sensitive on-device data. However, basic FLA systems have privacy limitations: they do not necessarily require anonymization…

Process attestation systems verify that a continuous physical process, such as human authorship, actually occurred, rather than merely checking system state. These systems face a fundamental dependability challenge: the evidence collection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 David Condrey

Cloud workloads combine software components from different parties to process sensitive data. Each component has its own trust model - it must protect its assets from the rest of the system, yet share sensitive data with components it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Adrien Ghosn , Charly Castes , Neelu S. Kalani , Yuchen Qian , Marios Kogias , Edouard Bugnion

Arm introduced the Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) in the upcoming Armv9-A architecture, enabling the support of confidential virtual machines (CVMs) in a separate world called the Realm world, providing protection from untrusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xiangyi Xu , Wenhao Wang , Yongzheng Wu , Chenyu Wang , Huifeng Zhu , Haocheng Ma , Zhennan Min , Zixuan Pang , Rui Hou , Yier Jin

Confidentiality, integrity protection, and high availability, abbreviated to CIA, are essential properties for trustworthy data systems. The rise of cloud computing and the growing demand for multiparty applications however means that…

Container-based technologies empower cloud tenants to develop highly portable software and deploy services in the cloud at a rapid pace. Cloud privacy, meanwhile, is important as a large number of container deployments operate on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Matthew A. Johnson , Stavros Volos , Ken Gordon , Sean T. Allen , Christoph M. Wintersteiger , Sylvan Clebsch , John Starks , Manuel Costa

In this paper, we present a comprehensive architecture for confidential computing, which we show to be general purpose and quite efficient. It executes the application as is, without any added burden or discipline requirements from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Jessica Tseng , Gianfranco Bilardi , Kattamuri Ekanadham , Manoj Kumar , Jose Moreira , P. C. Pattnaik

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) protect data in use by running workloads within hardware-enforced Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). However, existing CVM attestation mechanisms only certify what code is running, not where it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Filip Rezabek , Moe Mahhouk , Andrew Miller , Quintus Kilbourn , Georg Carle , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

We develop the concept of Trusted and Confidential Program Analysis (TCPA) which enables program certification to be used where previously there was insufficient trust. Imagine a scenario where a producer may not be trusted to certify its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Han Liu , Pedro Antonino , Zhiqiang Yang , Chao Liu , A. W. Roscoe

Increasingly, business opportunities available to fabless design teams in the semiconductor industry far exceed those addressable with on-prem compute resources. An attractive option to capture these electronic design automation (EDA)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Mengmei Ye , Derren Dunn , Daniele Buono , Angelo Ruocco , Claudio Carvalho , Tobin Feldman-fitzthum , Hubertus Franke , James Bottomley

Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Edoardo Marangone , Michele Spina , Claudio Di Ciccio , Ingo Weber

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

Imagine a group of citizens willing to collectively contribute their personal data for the common good to produce socially useful information, resulting from data analytics or machine learning computations. Sharing raw personal data with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Riad Ladjel , Nicolas Anciaux , Aurélien Bellet , Guillaume Scerri

The rapid advancement of cloud-native technologies has created an urgent need for security. Currently, confidential containers are increasingly deployed in multi-tenant environments. Existing confidential container designs mainly adopt a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Liantao Song , Yiming Zhang , Fengwei Zhang , Yan Ding , Bin Zhou , Jie Yu , Yusong Tan

This paper addresses privacy protection in decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) using Confidential Computing (CC) within the Atoma Network, a decentralized AI platform designed for the Web3 domain. Decentralized AI distributes AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Dayeol Lee , Jorge António , Hisham Khan

When deploying mission-critical systems in the cloud, where deviations may have severe consequences, the assurance of critical decisions becomes essential. Typical cloud systems are operated by third parties and are built on complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lev Sorokin , Ulrich Schoepp