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Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) allows a data owner to securely outsource its encrypted data to a cloud server while maintaining the ability to search over it and retrieve matched documents. Most existing SSE schemes leak which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Zhiwei Shang , Simon Oya , Andreas Peter , Florian Kerschbaum

Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) allows users to search over encrypted data stored on untrusted servers, like cloud providers. While SSE hides the content of queries and documents, it still leaks patterns, such as how often a query is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chinecherem Dimobi

Substring-searchable symmetric encryption (substring-SSE) has become increasingly critical for privacy-preserving applications in cloud systems. However, existing schemes remain vulnerable to information leakage during search operations,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xijie Ba , Qin Liu , Xiaohong Li , Jianting Ning

Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) enables a server to efficiently search and update over encrypted files. To minimize the leakage during updates, a security notion named forward and backward privacy is expected for newly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Lei Xu , Leqian Zheng , Chengzhi Xu , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang

Conjunctive Searchable Symmetric Encryption (CSSE) enables secure conjunctive searches over encrypted data. While leakage-abuse attacks (LAAs) against single-keyword SSE have been extensively studied, their extension to conjunctive queries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yue Su , Meng Shen , Cong Zuo , Yuzhi Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) supports keyword search over outsourced symmetrically encrypted data. Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE), a variant of SSE, further enables data updating. Most DSSE works with conjunctive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Chang Xu , Ruijuan Wang , Liehuang Zhu , Chuan Zhang , Rongxing Lu , Kashif Sharif

Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) enables efficient search capabilities over encrypted data, allowing users to maintain privacy while utilizing cloud storage. However, SSE schemes are vulnerable to leakage attacks that exploit access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Joshua Chiu , Partha Protim Paul , Zahin Wahab

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) enables a client to perform searches over its outsourced encrypted files while preserving privacy of the files and queries. Dynamic schemes, where files can be added or removed, leak more information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Mohammad Etemad , Alptekin Küpçü , Charalampos Papamanthou , David Evans

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) for multi-owner model draws much attention as it enables data users to perform searches over encrypted cloud data outsourced by data owners. However, implementing secure and precise query, efficient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Kai Chen , Zhongrui Lin , Jian Wan , Lei Xu , Chungen Xu

At present, the cloud storage used in searchable symmetric encryption schemes (SSE) is provided in a private way, which cannot be seen as a true cloud. Moreover, the cloud server is thought to be credible, because it always returns the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Huige Li , Fangguo Zhang , Jiejie He , Haibo Tian

Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) is a useful cryptographic tool in encrypted cloud storage. However, it has been reported that DSSE usually suffers from file-injection attacks and content leak of deleted documents. To mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Cong Zuo , Shi-Feng Sun , Joseph K. Liu , Jun Shao , Josef Pieprzyk

Searchable Encryption (SE) is a technique that allows Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to search over encrypted datasets without learning the content of queries and records. In recent years, many SE schemes have been proposed to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Shujie Cui , Xiangfu Song , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Steven D Galbraith , Giovanni Russello

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) allows the data owner to outsource an encrypted database to a remote server in a private manner while maintaining the ability for selectively search. So far, most existing solutions focus on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Shengshan Hu , Chengjun Cai , Qian Wang , Cong Wang , Minghui Li , Zhibo Wang , Dengpan Ye

A symmetric searchable encryption (SSE) scheme allows a client (data owner) to search on encrypted data outsourced to an untrusted cloud server. The search may either be a single keyword search or a complex query search like conjunctive or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Laltu Sardar , Sushmita Ruj

While storing documents on the cloud can be attractive, the question remains whether cloud providers can be trusted with storing private documents. Even if trusted, data breaches are ubiquitous. To prevent information leakage one can store…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Marco Dijkslag , Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

Outsourcing data storage to the remote cloud can be an economical solution to enhance data management in the smart grid ecosystem. To protect the privacy of data, the utility company may choose to encrypt the data before uploading them to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jiangnan Li , Xiangyu Niu , Jinyuan Stella Sun

Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) enables users to delegate the keyword search over dynamically updated encrypted databases to an honest-but-curious server without losing keyword privacy. This paper studies a new and practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Tianyang Chen , Peng Xu , Stjepan Picek , Bo Luo , Willy Susilo , Hai Jin , Kaitai Liang

Dynamic Searchable Encryption (DSE) has emerged as a solution to efficiently handle and protect large-scale data storage in encrypted databases (EDBs). Volume leakage poses a significant threat, as it enables adversaries to reconstruct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Dongli Liu , Wei Wang , Peng Xu , Laurence T. Yang , Bo Luo , Kaitai Liang

Considerable attention has been paid to dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) which allows users to search on dynamically updated encrypted databases. To improve the performance of real-world applications, recent non-interactive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Hanqi Zhang , Chang Xu , Rongxing Lu , Liehuang Zhu , Chuan Zhang , Yunguo Guan

Searchable symmetric encryption schemes often unintentionally disclose certain sensitive information, such as access, volume, and search patterns. Attackers can exploit such leakages and other available knowledge related to the user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hao Nie , Wei Wang , Peng Xu , Xianglong Zhang , Laurence T. Yang , Kaitai Liang
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