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 …

Tiptoe is a private web search engine that allows clients to search over hundreds of millions
of documents, while revealing no information about their search query to the search engine's …

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are a feature of modern central processing units
(CPUs) that aim to provide a high assurance, isolated environment in which to run …

Data-driven intelligent applications in modern online services have become ubiquitous.
These applications are usually hosted in the untrusted cloud computing infrastructure. This …

Intel SGX is a hardware-based trusted execution environment (TEE), which enables an
application to compute on confidential data in a secure enclave. SGX assumes a powerful …

This paper addresses a key missing piece in the current ecosystem of decentralized
services and blockchain apps: the lack of decentralized, verifiable, and private search …

Recommenders are central in many applications today. The most effective recommendation
schemes, such as those based on collaborative filtering (CF), exploit similarities between …

Using public cloud services for storing and sharing confidential data requires end users to
cryptographically protect both the data and the access to the data. In some cases, the …

Single sign-on (SSO) allows users to authenticate to third-party applications through a
central identity provider. Despite their wide adoption, deployed SSO systems suffer from …

With in-memory key-value caches such as Redis and Memcached being a key component
for many systems to improve throughput and reduce latency, cloud caches have been widely …