BliMe: Verifiably Secure Outsourced Computation with Hardware-Enforced Taint Tracking
Hossam ElAtali
Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2024 · Day 3 · Systems & Containers
The proliferation of outsourced computing, driven by its undeniable cost benefits and scalability, has introduced a fundamental challenge: maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive client data when processed by remote, potentially untrusted, cloud service providers (CSPs). As proprietary business logic and personal information increasingly reside on shared servers managed by third-party application software, concerns about malicious CSPs, compromised software, and sophisticated run-time or side-channel attacks have escalated. BliMe emerges as a groundbreaking solution to this critical problem, proposing a novel architecture that guarantees data confidentiality even in the face of such pervasive threats.