33 citations · 59 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
14 papers
NVCache: A Plug-and-Play NVMM-based I/O Booster for Legacy Systems
Rémi Dulong, Rafael Pires, Andreia Correia +4
This paper introduces NVCache, an approach that uses a non-volatile main memory (NVMM) as a write cache to improve the write performance of legacy applications. We compare NVCache…
Security, Performance and Energy Implications of Hardware-assisted Memory Protection Mechanisms on Event-based Streaming Systems
Christian Göttel, Rafael Pires, Isabelly Rocha +4
Major cloud providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft provide nowadays some form of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) which allows deploying services in the form of virtual m…
Trust Management as a Service: Enabling Trusted Execution in the Face of Byzantine Stakeholders
Franz Gregor, Wojciech Ozga, Sébastien Vaucher +7
Trust is arguably the most important challenge for critical services both deployed as well as accessed remotely over the network. These systems are exposed to a wide diversity of t…
Distributed systems and trusted execution environments: Trade-offs and challenges
Rafael Pereira Pires
Security and privacy concerns in computer systems have grown in importance with the ubiquity of connected devices. TEEs provide security guarantees based on cryptographic construct…
Anonymous and confidential file sharing over untrusted clouds
Stefan Contiu, Sébastien Vaucher, Rafael Pires +3
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 i…
Malware in the SGX supply chain: Be careful when signing enclaves!
Vlad Crăciun, Pascal Felber, Andrei Mogage +2
Malware attacks are a significant part of the new software security threats detected each year. Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are a set of hardware instructions introduced…