Security vulnerabilities of SGX and countermeasures: A survey

S Fei, Z Yan, W Ding, H Xie - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have been widely used in many security-critical
applications. The popularity of TEEs derives from its high security and trustworthiness …

When blockchain meets SGX: An overview, challenges, and open issues

Z Bao, Q Wang, W Shi, L Wang, H Lei, B Chen - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a decentralized, public, and digital ledger technology in Peer-to-Peer network,
blockchain has received much attention from various fields, including finance, healthcare …

Plundervolt: Software-based fault injection attacks against Intel SGX

K Murdock, D Oswald, FD Garcia… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic frequency and voltage scaling features have been introduced to manage ever-
growing heat and power consumption in modern processors. Design restrictions ensure …

Foreshadow: Extracting the keys to the intel {SGX} kingdom with transient {Out-of-Order} execution

J Van Bulck, M Minkin, O Weisse, D Genkin… - 27th USENIX Security …, 2018 - usenix.org
Trusted execution environments, and particularly the Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)
included in recent Intel x86 processors, gained significant traction in recent years. A long …

Ekiden: A platform for confidentiality-preserving, trustworthy, and performant smart contracts

R Cheng, F Zhang, J Kos, W He… - 2019 IEEE European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart contracts are applications that execute on blockchains. Today they manage billions of
dollars in value and motivate visionary plans for pervasive blockchain deployment. While …

SoK: SGX. Fail: How stuff gets eXposed

S Van Schaik, A Seto, T Yurek, A Batori… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) promises an isolated execution environment,
protected from all software running on the machine. As such, numerous works have sought …

{Graphene-SGX}: A practical library {OS} for unmodified applications on {SGX}

CC Tsai, DE Porter, M Vij - 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference …, 2017 - usenix.org
Intel SGX hardware enables applications to protect themselves from potentially-malicious
OSes or hypervisors. In cloud computing and other systems, many users and applications …

Software grand exposure:{SGX} cache attacks are practical

F Brasser, U Müller, A Dmitrienko… - 11th USENIX workshop …, 2017 - usenix.org
Intel SGX isolates the memory of security-critical applications from the untrusted OS.
However, it has been speculated that SGX may be vulnerable to side-channel attacks …

Sgxpectre: Stealing intel secrets from sgx enclaves via speculative execution

G Chen, S Chen, Y Xiao, Y Zhang… - 2019 IEEE European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in micro-architecture processors have
raised concerns about the security of Intel SGX. To understand clearly the security impact of …

Inferring fine-grained control flow inside {SGX} enclaves with branch shadowing

S Lee, MW Shih, P Gera, T Kim, H Kim… - 26th USENIX Security …, 2017 - usenix.org
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 …