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 …

The need for practical security in modern computing systems is greater than ever. The
increase in system complexity, growth of the cloud, and advent of new technologies are all …

Modern computer systems exhibit a major weakness in that code and data are stored in the
clear, unencrypted, within random access memory. As a result, numerous vulnerabilities …

This talk will introduce the audience to two new x86 ISA features developed by AMD which
will provide new security enhancements by leveraging integrated memory encryption …

Due to the widespread software piracy and virus attacks, significant efforts have been made
to improve security for computer systems. For stand-alone computers, a key observation is …

Protection from hardware attacks such as snoopers and mod chips has been receiving
increasing attention in computer architecture. This paper presents a new combined memory …

Hardware-assisted trusted execution environments are secure isolation technologies that
have been engineered to serve as efficient defense mechanisms to provide a security …

Current disk encryption techniques store necessary keys in RAM and are therefore
susceptible to attacks that target volatile memory, such as Firewire and cold boot attacks. We …

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 …