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Leveraging Intel SGX technology to protect security-sensitive applications

Published in:
17th IEEE Int. Symp. on Network Computing and Applications, NCA, 1-3 November 2018.

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This paper explains the process by which Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) can be leveraged into an existing codebase to protect a security-sensitive application. Intel SGX provides user-level applications with hardware-enforced confidentiality and integrity protections and incurs manageable impact on performance. These protections apply to all three phases of the operational data lifecycle: at rest, in use, and in transit. SGX shrinks the trusted computing base (and therefore the attack surface) of the application to only the hardware on the CPU chip and the portion of the application's software that is executed within the protected enclave. The SDK enables SGX integration into existing C/C++ codebases while still ensuring program support for legacy and non-Intel platforms. This paper is the first published work to walk through the step-by-step process of Intel SGX integration with examples and performance results from an actual cryptographic application produced in a standard Linux development environment.
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This paper explains the process by which Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) can be leveraged into an existing codebase to protect a security-sensitive application. Intel SGX provides user-level applications with hardware-enforced confidentiality and integrity protections and incurs manageable impact on performance. These protections apply to all three phases of the...

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Secure embedded systems

Published in:
Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2016, pp. 110-122.

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Developers seek to seamlessly integrate cyber security within U.S. military system software. However, added security components can impede a system's functionality. System developers need a well-defined approach for simultaneously designing functionality and cyber security. Lincoln Laboratory's secure embedded system co-design methodology uses a security coprocessor to cryptographically ensure system confidentiality and integrity while maintaining functionality.
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Developers seek to seamlessly integrate cyber security within U.S. military system software. However, added security components can impede a system's functionality. System developers need a well-defined approach for simultaneously designing functionality and cyber security. Lincoln Laboratory's secure embedded system co-design methodology uses a security coprocessor to cryptographically ensure system confidentiality...

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Efficient transmission of DoD PKI certificates in tactical networks

Published in:
MILCOM 2011, IEEE Military Communications Conf., 7-10 November 2011, pp. 1739-1747.

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The DoD vision of real-time information sharing and net-centric services available to warfighters at the tactical edge is challenged by low-bandwidth and high-latency tactical network links. Secured tactical applications require transmission of digital certificates that contribute a major portion of data in most secure sessions, which further increases response time for users and drains device power. In this paper we present a simple and practical approach to alleviating this problem. We develop a dictionary of data common across DoD PKI certificates to prime general-purpose data compression of certificates, resulting in a significant reduction (about 50%) of certificate sizes. This reduction in message size translates in to faster response times for the users. For example, a mutual authentication of a client and a server over the Iridium satellite link is expected to be sped up by as much as 3 sec. This approach can be added directly to tactical applications with minimal effort, or it can be deployed as part of an intercepting network proxy, completely transparent to applications.
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The DoD vision of real-time information sharing and net-centric services available to warfighters at the tactical edge is challenged by low-bandwidth and high-latency tactical network links. Secured tactical applications require transmission of digital certificates that contribute a major portion of data in most secure sessions, which further increases response time...

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