Secure Processors Part II
Secure Processors Part II

Author: Victor Costan

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781680833027

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This manuscript is the second in a two part survey and analysis of the state of the art in secure processor systems, with a specific focus on remote software attestation and software isolation. The first part established the taxonomy and prerequisite concepts relevant to an examination of the state of the art in trusted remote computation: attested software isolation containers (enclaves). This second part extends Part I's description of Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), an available and documented enclave-capable system, with a rigorous security analysis of SGX as a system for trusted remote computation. This part documents the authors' concerns over the shortcomings of SGX as a secure system and introduces the MIT Sanctum processor developed by the authors: a system designed to offer stronger security guarantees, lend itself better to analysis and formal verification, and offer a more straightforward and complete threat model than the Intel system, all with an equivalent programming model. This two part work advocates a principled, transparent, and wellscrutinized approach to system design, and argues that practical guarantees of privacy and integrity for remote computation are achievable at a reasonable design cost and performance overhead.

Principles of Secure Processor Architecture Design
Principles of Secure Processor Architecture Design

Author: Jakub Szefer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3031017609

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With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today's processors has increased significantly over the recent years. No longer of just academic interest, security features inside processors have been embraced by industry as well, with a number of commercial secure processor architectures available today. This book aims to give readers insights into the principles behind the design of academic and commercial secure processor architectures. Secure processor architecture research is concerned with exploring and designing hardware features inside computer processors, features which can help protect confidentiality and integrity of the code and data executing on the processor. Unlike traditional processor architecture research that focuses on performance, efficiency, and energy as the first-order design objectives, secure processor architecture design has security as the first-order design objective (while still keeping the others as important design aspects that need to be considered). This book aims to present the different challenges of secure processor architecture design to graduate students interested in research on architecture and hardware security and computer architects working in industry interested in adding security features to their designs. It aims to educate readers about how the different challenges have been solved in the past and what are the best practices, i.e., the principles, for design of new secure processor architectures. Based on the careful review of past work by many computer architects and security researchers, readers also will come to know the five basic principles needed for secure processor architecture design. The book also presents existing research challenges and potential new research directions. Finally, this book presents numerous design suggestions, as well as discusses pitfalls and fallacies that designers should avoid.

Transactions on Computational Science X
Transactions on Computational Science X

Author: Marina L. Gavrilova

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 364217499X

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The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massive data processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, from mathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computational methods, findings, and solutions and enabling industrial users to apply techniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computational methods. The 10th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science, edited by Edward David Moreno, is the first of two publications focusing on security in computing. The 14 papers included in the volume address a wide range of applications and designs, such as new architectures, novel hardware implementations, cryptographic algorithms, and security protocols.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering, Management and Security 2015
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering, Management and Security 2015

Author: Vignesh Ramakrishnan

Publisher: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties (ASDF)

Published: 2015-08-13

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 8192974278

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ICIEMS 2015 is the conference aim is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering, Application Level Security and Management Science. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2017
Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2017

Author: Jean-Sébastien Coron

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-10

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 3319566202

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The three-volume proceedings LNCS 10210-10212 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 36th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2017, held in Paris, France, in April/May 2017. The 67 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: lattice attacks and constructions; obfuscation and functional encryption; discrete logarithm; multiparty computation; universal composability; zero knowledge; side-channel attacks and countermeasures; functional encryption; elliptic curves; symmetric cryptanalysis; provable security for symmetric cryptography; security models; blockchain; memory hard functions; symmetric-key constructions; obfuscation; quantum cryptography; public-key encryption and key-exchange.

Secure Smart Embedded Devices, Platforms and Applications
Secure Smart Embedded Devices, Platforms and Applications

Author: Konstantinos Markantonakis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-09-14

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1461479150

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New generations of IT users are increasingly abstracted from the underlying devices and platforms that provide and safeguard their services. As a result they may have little awareness that they are critically dependent on the embedded security devices that are becoming pervasive in daily modern life. Secure Smart Embedded Devices, Platforms and Applications provides a broad overview of the many security and practical issues of embedded devices, tokens, and their operation systems, platforms and main applications. It also addresses a diverse range of industry/government initiatives and considerations, while focusing strongly on technical and practical security issues. The benefits and pitfalls of developing and deploying applications that rely on embedded systems and their security functionality are presented. A sufficient level of technical detail to support embedded systems is provided throughout the text, although the book is quite readable for those seeking awareness through an initial overview of the topics. This edited volume benefits from the contributions of industry and academic experts and helps provide a cross-discipline overview of the security and practical issues for embedded systems, tokens, and platforms. It is an ideal complement to the earlier work, Smart Cards Tokens, Security and Applications from the same editors.

Secure Processors Part I
Secure Processors Part I

Author: Victor Costan

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781680833010

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This manuscript is the first in a two part survey and analysis of the state of the art in secure processor systems, with a specific focus on remote software attestation and software isolation. This manuscript first examines the relevant concepts in computer architecture and cryptography, and then surveys attack vectors and existing processor systems claiming security for remote computation and/or software isolation. This work examines in detail the modern isolation container (enclave) primitive as a means to minimize trusted software given practical trusted hardware and reasonable performance overhead. Specifically, this work examines in detail the programming model and software design considerations of Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), as it is an available and documented enclave-capable system. Part II of this work is a deep dive into the implementation and security evaluation of two modern enclave-capable secure processor systems: SGX and MIT's Sanctum. The complex but insufficient threat model employed by SGX motivates Sanctum, which achieves stronger security guarantees under software attacks with an equivalent programming model. This work advocates a principled, transparent, and well-scrutinized approach to secure system design, and argues that practical guarantees of privacy and integrity for remote computation are achievable at a reasonable design cost and performance overhead.

Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2017
Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2017

Author: Serge Fehr

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 3662543656

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The two-volume set LNCS 10174 and 10175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in March 2017. The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as Cryptanalysis, Protocols, Encrpytion Schemes, Leakage-Resilient and Non-Malleable Codes, Number Theory and Diffie-Hellman, Encryption with Access Control, Special Signatures, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Real-World Schemes, Multiparty Computation and Primitives.

Transactions on Computational Science XI
Transactions on Computational Science XI

Author: Marina L. Gavrilova

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 3642176968

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The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massive data processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, from mathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computational methods, findings and solutions and enabling industrial users to apply techniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computational methods. This inaugural volume is devoted to computer systems research with an emphasis on core computational science issues faced by researchers and industries today, and focusing on the development of novel computational techniques that are versatile and verifiable in a wide range of applications. The volume is divided into two parts. The five papers in Part 1 focus on the theme of information system design, and the four papers in Part 2 are concerned with specific computational science problems in the area of data processing. Book jacket.

Computer Security - ESORICS 2014
Computer Security - ESORICS 2014

Author: Miroslaw Kutylowski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 3319112031

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The two-volume set, LNCS 8712 and LNCS 8713 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2014, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2014 The 58 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 234 submissions. The papers address issues such as cryptography, formal methods and theory of security, security services, intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation, security in hardware, systems security, network security, database and storage security, software and application security, human and societal aspects of security and privacy.