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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

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 protects data in use within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), but current TEEs provide little support for secure communication between components. As a result, pipelines of independently developed and deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Amir Al Sadi , Sina Abdollahi , Adrien Ghosn , Hamed Haddadi , Marios Kogias

We present a system for running auditable and verifiable elections in untrusted environments. Votes are anonymous since the order of candidates on a ballot sheet is random. Tellers see only the position of the candidate. Voters can check…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Kirill A. Korinsky

SAFE is a data-centric platform for building multi-domain networked systems, i.e., systems whose participants are controlled by different principals. Participants make trust decisions by issuing local queries over logic content exchanged in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Qiang Cao , Vamsi Thummala , Jeffrey S. Chase , Yuanjun Yao , Bing Xie

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

A key feature in trusted computing is attestation, which allows encapsulated components (enclaves) to prove their identity to (local or remote) distrusting components. Reasoning about software that uses the technique requires tracking how…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 June Rousseau , Denis Carnier , Thomas Van Strydonck , Steven Keuchel , Dominique Devriese , Lars Birkedal

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

If blockchain networks are to become the building blocks of the infrastructure for the future digital economy, then several challenges related to the resiliency and survivability of blockchain networks need to be addressed. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Thomas Hardjono , Ned Smith

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

In distributed systems, trust decisions are made on the basis of integrity evidence generated via remote attestation. Examples of the kinds of evidence that might be collected are boot time image hash values; fingerprints of initialization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ian D. Kretz , Clare C. Parran , John D. Ramsdell , Paul D. Rowe

Confidential computing plays an important role in isolating sensitive applications from the vast amount of untrusted code commonly found in the modern cloud. We argue that it can also be leveraged to build safer and more secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wojciech Ozga , Guerney D. H. Hunt , Michael V. Le , Lennard Gäher , Avraham Shinnar , Elaine R. Palmer , Hani Jamjoom , Silvio Dragone

We study certified everlasting secure functional encryption (FE) and many other cryptographic primitives in this work. Certified everlasting security roughly means the following. A receiver possessing a quantum cryptographic object can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Taiga Hiroka , Fuyuki Kitagawa , Tomoyuki Morimae , Ryo Nishimaki , Tapas Pal , Takashi Yamakawa

In vulnerability assessments, software component-based CVE attribution is a common method to identify possibly vulnerable systems at scale. However, such version-centric approaches yield high false-positive rates for binary distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 René Helmke , Johannes vom Dorp

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

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that allows to set large networks of small and independent devices. To ensure their integrity, practitioners employ so-called Remote Attestation (RA) schemes. Classic RA schemes require a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Alessandro Visintin , Flavio Toffalini , Mauro Conti , Jianying Zhou

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are designed to protect the privacy and integrity of data in use. They enable secure data processing and sharing in peer-to-peer networks, such as vehicular ad hoc networks of autonomous vehicles,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ceren Kocaoğullar , Gustavo Petri , Dominic P. Mulligan , Derek Miller , Hugo J. M. Vincent , Shale Xiong , Alastair R. Beresford

Closed-loop tool-using agents are increasingly evaluated in executable web, code, and micro-task environments, but benchmark reports often conflate workloads, action-generating drivers, and the evidence admitted for systems-facing claims.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhiqing Zhong , Zhijing Ye , Jiamin Wang , Xiaodong Yu

Public agencies are beginning to consider large language models (LLMs) as decision-support tools for grant evaluation. This creates a practical governance problem: the model and scoring rubric should not be exposed in a way that allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kemal Bicakci

A major security challenge for modern Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is to ensure that the devices run legitimate firmware free from malware. This challenge can be addressed through a security primitive called attestation which allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Stefan Hristozov , Moritz Wettermann , Manuel Huber