Silentflow: Leveraging Trusted Execution for Resource-Limited MPC via Hardware-Algorithm Co-design
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| author | Li, Zhuoran Asl, Hanieh Totonchi Nouri, Ebrahim Cai, Yifei Zhao, Danella |
| author_facet | Li, Zhuoran Asl, Hanieh Totonchi Nouri, Ebrahim Cai, Yifei Zhao, Danella |
| contents | Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) offers a practical foundation for privacy-preserving machine learning at the edge, with MPC commonly employed to support nonlinear operations. These MPC protocols fundamentally rely on Oblivious Transfer (OT), particularly Correlated OT (COT), to generate correlated randomness essential for secure computation. Although COT generation is efficient in conventional two-party settings with resource-rich participants, it becomes a critical bottleneck in real-world inference on resource-constrained devices (e.g., IoT sensors and wearables), due to both communication latency and limited computational capacity. To enable real-time secure inference, we introduce Silentflow, a highly efficient Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)-assisted protocol that eliminates communication in COT generation. We tackle the core performance bottleneck-low computational intensity-through structured algorithmic decomposition: kernel fusion for parallelism, Blocked On-chip eXpansion (BOX) to improve memory access patterns, and vectorized batch operations to maximize memory bandwidth utilization. Through design space exploration, we balance end-to-end latency and resource demands, achieving up to 39.51x speedup over state-of-the-art protocols. By offloading COT computations to a Zynq-7000 SoC, SilentFlow accelerates PPMLaaS inference on the ImageNet dataset under resource constraints, achieving a 4.62x and 3.95x speedup over Cryptflow2 and Cheetah, respectively. |
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| spellingShingle | Silentflow: Leveraging Trusted Execution for Resource-Limited MPC via Hardware-Algorithm Co-design Li, Zhuoran Asl, Hanieh Totonchi Nouri, Ebrahim Cai, Yifei Zhao, Danella Cryptography and Security Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) offers a practical foundation for privacy-preserving machine learning at the edge, with MPC commonly employed to support nonlinear operations. These MPC protocols fundamentally rely on Oblivious Transfer (OT), particularly Correlated OT (COT), to generate correlated randomness essential for secure computation. Although COT generation is efficient in conventional two-party settings with resource-rich participants, it becomes a critical bottleneck in real-world inference on resource-constrained devices (e.g., IoT sensors and wearables), due to both communication latency and limited computational capacity. To enable real-time secure inference, we introduce Silentflow, a highly efficient Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)-assisted protocol that eliminates communication in COT generation. We tackle the core performance bottleneck-low computational intensity-through structured algorithmic decomposition: kernel fusion for parallelism, Blocked On-chip eXpansion (BOX) to improve memory access patterns, and vectorized batch operations to maximize memory bandwidth utilization. Through design space exploration, we balance end-to-end latency and resource demands, achieving up to 39.51x speedup over state-of-the-art protocols. By offloading COT computations to a Zynq-7000 SoC, SilentFlow accelerates PPMLaaS inference on the ImageNet dataset under resource constraints, achieving a 4.62x and 3.95x speedup over Cryptflow2 and Cheetah, respectively. |
| title | Silentflow: Leveraging Trusted Execution for Resource-Limited MPC via Hardware-Algorithm Co-design |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13357 |