Title
Achieving Practical Symmetric Searchable Encryption With Search Pattern Privacy Over Cloud
Abstract
Dynamic symmetric searchable encryption (SSE), which enables a data user to securely search and dynamically update the encrypted documents stored in a semi-trusted cloud server, has received considerable attention in recent years. However, the search and update operations in many previously reported SSE schemes will bring some additional privacy leakages, e.g., search pattern privacy, forward privacy and backward privacy. To the best of our knowledge, none of the existing dynamic SSE schemes preserves the search pattern privacy, and many backward private SSE schemes still leak some critical information, e.g., the identifiers containing a specific keyword currently in the database. Therefore, aiming at the above challenges, in this article, we design a practical SSE scheme, which not only supports the search pattern privacy but also enhances the backward privacy. Specifically, we first leverage the <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$</tex-math></inline-formula> -anonymity and encryption to design an obfuscating technique. Then, based on the obfuscating technique, pseudorandom function and pseudorandom generator, we design a basic dynamic SSE scheme to support single keyword queries and simultaneously achieve search pattern privacy and enhanced backward privacy. Furthermore, we also extend our proposed scheme to support more efficient boolean queries. Security analysis demonstrates that our proposed scheme can achieve the desired privacy properties, and the extensive performance evaluations also show that our proposed scheme is indeed efficient in terms of communication overhead and computational cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TSC.2020.2992303
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Dynamic SSE,search pattern privacy,enhanced backward privacy,boolean query
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1939-1374
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yandong Zheng1206.38
Rongxing Lu25091301.87
Jun Shao3896.07
Fan Yin4764.25
Hui Zhu5819.97