A Trial to Embed RAM Encryption Scheme in Cryptographic Programs

Abstract

The RAM encryption encrypts the data on memory to prevent data leakage from an adversary to eavesdrop the memory space of the target program. The well-known implementation is Intel SGX, whose RAM encryption mechanism is definitely hardware dependent. In contrast, Watanabe et al. proposed a fully software-based RAM encryption scheme (SBRES). In this paper, we developed the tools for embedding the SBRES in C source codes for its practical application. We applied the tools to the source codes of some cryptographic implementations in Mbed TLS and confirmed that the tools successfully embedded the SBRES functionality in the cryptographic implementations.