Confidential remote computing

Thesis

Since their market launch in late 2015, trusted hardware enclaves have revolutionised the computing world with data-in-use protections. Their security features of confidentiality, integrity and attestation attract many application developers to move their valuable assets, such as cryptographic keys, password managers, private data, secret algorithms and mission-critical operations, into them. The potential security issues have not been well explored yet, and the quick integration movement ...

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Authors: Küçük, KA

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-2rovaxbjd
• Language: English
• Keywords: malware; confidential remote computing; software guard eXtensions; confidential computing; Intel SGX; trusted execution environment; private algorithms; CRC; secret code execution; TEE
• Subjects: Confidential communications; Cryptography; Digital rights management; ARM microprocessors; Computer programming; Attest function (Auditing); Computers; Reduced instruction set computers; Smart power grids; Engineering; Software container technologies; Computer algorithms; Data encryption (Computer science); Trust; Data integrity; Edge computing; Remote procedure calls; Hardware; C++ (Computer program language); Cyberinfrastructure; Cloud computing; Internet of things; Malware (Computer software); Computer security; Data privacy; Public key cryptography; CISC microprocessors; Hashing (Computer science); Software; X86 assembly language (Computer program language); Computer network architectures