VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Christophe de Dinechin
dblp:54/2629
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
0009-0005-0397-6281ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Cloud and datacenter computing · 100% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Systems and software security · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Systems and software security › trusted computing
trusted computing base |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Crossing Shifted Moats: Replacing Old Bridges with New Tunnels to Confidential Containers · CCS 2024 |
Cloud and datacenter computing › cloud security
confidential computing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Crossing Shifted Moats: Replacing Old Bridges with New Tunnels to Confidential Containers · CCS 2024 |
Cloud and datacenter computing
container orchestration |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Crossing Shifted Moats: Replacing Old Bridges with New Tunnels to Confidential Containers · CCS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
attack surface analysis · 1.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Crossing Shifted Moats: Replacing Old Bridges with New Tunnels to Confidential ContainersabstractThe Confidential Containers (CoCo) project, as an open-source community initiative, inherits the system architecture of Kata Containers while integrating confidential computing to protect cloud-native container workloads. However, there exists a misalignment in the threat model and trusted computing base (TCB) between Kata Containers and confidential computing. The shifted trust boundaries could potentially expose a range of vulnerabilities, particularly in scenarios where a malicious actor on the host gains access to the CoCo's unprotected control interface. This paper conducts a thorough examination of CoCo's system architecture, exploring the attack surface resulting from the discord in trust boundaries. We have assessed all API endpoints of CoCo's control interface, categorizing them based on their security properties. Drawing from these insights, we have developed a bifurcation approach to splitting CoCo's control interface. This involves establishing an owner-side controller and minimizing the capabilities of the existing host-side controller. Under this framework, the host-side controller is exclusively responsible for allocating and recycling compute resources, while dedicated workload owners can directly manage their containers through alternative secure tunnels. This approach ensures seamless integration with cloud-native orchestration layers and aligns CoCo with the threat model of confidential computing. By doing so, it effectively prevents untrusted hosts from accessing confidential data and interfering with the execution of workloads within protected domains. Enriquillo Valdez, Salman Ahmed 0001, Zhongshu Gu, Christophe de Dinechin, Pau-Chen Cheng, Hani Jamjoom |
CCS | 4 |