Intel SGX hardware enables applications to protect themselves from potentially-malicious
OSes or hypervisors. In cloud computing and other systems, many users and applications …

Intel has introduced a hardware-based trusted execution environment, Intel Software Guard
Extensions (SGX), that provides a secure, isolated execution environment, or enclave, for a …

Data confidentiality is a central concern in modern computer systems and services, as
sensitive data from users and companies are being increasingly delegated to such systems …

The importance of safeguarding individuals' privacy rights in online activities is unmistakable
in today's anonymity networks. Since the introduction of Mixnet by Chaum, numerous …

Traditional CPUs and cloud systems based on them have embraced the hardware-based
trusted execution environments to securely isolate computation from malicious OS or …

With the advent of network function virtualization (NFV), outsourcing network processing to
the cloud is growing in popularity amongst enterprises and organizations. Such outsourcing …

Middleboxes that process confidential data cannot be securely deployed in untrusted cloud
environments. To securely outsource middleboxes to the cloud, state-of-the-art systems …

This paper presents the first critical analysis of building highly secure, performant, and
confidential Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus by integrating off-the-shelf crash fault …

System auditing is a central concern when investigating and responding to security
incidents. Unfortunately, attackers regularly engage in anti-forensic activities after a break-in …

The blockchain-based smart contract lacks privacy since the contract state and instruction
code are exposed to the public. Combining smart-contract execution with Trusted Execution …