Memory encryption has yet to be used at the core of operating system designs to provide
confidentiality of code and data. As a result, numerous vulnerabilities exist at every level of …

Intel's Software Guard Extensions allows general-purpose computing platforms to run
software in a trustworthy manner and securely handle encrypted data. To satisfy the …

This paper introduces QARMA, a new family of lightweight tweakable block ciphers targeted
at applications such as memory encryption, the generation of very short tags for hardware …

Trusted computing platforms aim to provide trust in computations performed by sensitive
applications. Verifying the integrity of memory contents is a crucial security service that these …

In today's digital world, computer security issues have become increasingly important. In
particular, researchers have proposed designs for secure processors which utilize hardware …

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an emerging Non Volatile Memory (NVM) technology that
has the potential to provide scalable high-density memory systems. While the non-volatility …

This paper presents a new metric, which we call Signal Available to Attacker (SAVAT), that
measures the side channel signal created by a specific single-instruction difference in …

AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) is an emerging technology to secure virtual
machines (VM) even in the presence of malicious hypervisors. However, the lack of trust in …

Embodiments of a method and system for detecting and confirming an agent presence are
disclosed herein. The agent presence can be confirmed by a secure management engine …

Securing off-chip main memory is essential for protection from adversaries with physical
access to systems. However, current secure-memory designs incur considerable …