9 papers
Leader Rotation Is Not Enough: Scrutinizing Leadership Democracy of Chained BFT Consensus
Jianyu Niu, Yining Tang, Runchao Han +2
With the growing popularity of blockchains, modern chained BFT protocols combining chaining and leader rotation to obtain better efficiency and leadership democracy have received i…
Chimera: Protocol-Aware Recovery for Confidential BFT Consensus
Tong Liu, Xiaoqing Wen, Ziwei Zhou +4
Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have enabled confidential Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) consensus systems with confidentiality and improved scalability. However, TEEs do not…
DIST-FL: Enhancing Security for TEE-based Aggregation in Federated Learning
Guanlong Wu, Ju Yang, Zhen Huang +4
Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)-aided federated learning protocols emerge as promising solutions to counter server-side adversaries and ensure the trustworthiness of the serv…
TeeDAO: A Decentralized Autonomous Organization for Heterogeneous TEEs
Pinshen Xu, Wentao Dong, Guoxing Chen +3
Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged as a critical technology for safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring code integrity in modern computing systems. However, relyin…
ODYSSEY: Reestablishing Confidentiality in Confidential Blockchain via Delegated Execution
Ju Yang, Weili Wang, Jianyu Niu +2
Confidential blockchains leveraging Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have garnered extensive attention for transaction confidentiality. In this paper, we first taxonomize two…
CachePrune: Privacy-Aware and Fine-Grained KV Cache Sharing for Efficient LLM Inference
Guanlong Wu, Zhaohan li, Yao Zhang +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on Key-Value (KV) caching to accelerate inference, and many serving systems further share the KV cache across users' requests to reduce redundant…