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Cloud data storage solutions offer customers cost-effective and reduced data management. While attractive, data security issues remain to be a core concern. Traditional encryption protects stored documents, but hinders simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Marc Damie , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

The cloud computing technique, which was initially used to mitigate the explosive growth of data, has been required to take both data privacy and users' query functionality into consideration. Symmetric searchable encryption (SSE) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Fan Yin , Rongxing Lu , Yandong Zheng , Jun Shao , Xue Yang , Xiaohu Tang

The widespread adoption of cloud infrastructures has revolutionised data storage and access. However, it has also raised concerns regarding the privacy of sensitive data stored in the cloud. To address these concerns, encryption techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ivone Amorim , Ivan Costa

Effective query recovery attacks against Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) schemes typically rely on auxiliary ground-truth information about the queries or dataset. Query recovery is also possible under the weaker statistical auxiliary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Oya , Florian Kerschbaum

Searchable encryption (SE) is one of the key enablers for building encrypted databases. It allows a cloud server to search over encrypted data without decryption. Dynamic SE additionally includes data addition and deletion operations to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Viet Vo , Shangqi Lai , Xingliang Yuan , Shi-Feng Sun , Surya Nepal , Joseph K. Liu

Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption (DSSE) allows secure searches over a dynamic encrypted database but suffers from inherent information leakage. Existing passive attacks against DSSE rely on persistent leakage monitoring to infer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Hao Nie , Wei Wang , Peng Xu , Wei Chen , Laurence T. Yang , Mauro Conti , Kaitai Liang

Outsourcing encrypted data to the cloud creates a fundamental tension between data privacy and functional searchability. Current Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) solutions frequently have significant limitations, such as excessive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Seydina Ousmane Diallo , Maryline Laurent , Nesrine Kaaniche

Various cryptographic techniques are used in outsourced database systems to ensure data privacy while allowing for efficient querying. This work proposes a definition and components of a new secure and efficient outsourced database system,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Dmytro Bogatov

Cloud computing has become a potential resource for businesses and individuals to outsource their data to remote but highly accessible servers. However, potentials of the cloud services have not been fully unleashed due to users' concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Hoang Pham , Jason Woodworth , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Searchable Encryption (SE) enables users to query outsourced encrypted data while preserving data confidentiality. However, most efficient schemes still leak the search pattern and access pattern, which may allow an honest-but-curious cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jing Zhang , Ganxuan Yang , Yifei Yang , Siqi Wen , Zhengyang Qiu

In the use of a cloud storage, sharing of data with efficient access control is an important requirement in addition to data security and privacy. Cui et al. (IEEE Trans. on Comp. 2016) proposed \textit{key-aggregate searchable encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Masahiro Kamimura , Naoto Yanai , Shingo Okamura , Jason Paul Cruz

Cloud computing is emerging as a revolutionary computing paradigm, while security and privacy become major concerns in the cloud scenario. For which Searchable Encryption (SE) technology is proposed to support efficient retrieval of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Ruihui Zhao , Yuanliang Sun , Mizuho Iwaihara

Cloud computing is emerging as a revolutionary computing paradigm which pro-vides a flexible and economic strategy for data management and resource sharing. Security and privacy become major concerns in the cloud scenario, for which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Ruihui Zhao , Mizuho Iwaihara

Symmetric private information retrieval is a cryptographic task allowing a user to query a database and obtain exactly one entry without revealing to the owner of the database which element was accessed. The task is a variant of general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Esther Hänggi , Severin Winkler

Side-channel information leakage is a known limitation of SGX. Researchers have demonstrated that secret-dependent information can be extracted from enclave execution through page-fault access patterns. Consequently, various recent research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Ferdinand Brasser , Urs Müller , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

At CCS 2015 Naveed et al. presented first attacks on efficiently searchable encryption, such as deterministic and order-preserving encryption. These plaintext guessing attacks have been further improved in subsequent work, e.g. by Grubbs et…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Florian Kerschbaum , Anselme Tueno

Numerous studies have underscored the significant privacy risks associated with various leakage patterns in encrypted data stores. While many solutions have been proposed to mitigate these leakages, they either (1) incur substantial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Leqian Zheng , Lei Xu , Cong Wang , Sheng Wang , Yuke Hu , Zhan Qin , Feifei Li , Kui Ren

Motivated by the problem of simultaneously preserving confidentiality and usability of data outsourced to third-party clouds, we present two different database encryption schemes that largely hide data but reveal enough information to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Omar Chowdhury , Deepak Garg , Limin Jia , Anupam Datta

Nowadays, huge amount of documents are increasingly transferred to the remote servers due to the appealing features of cloud computing. On the other hand, privacy and security of the sensitive information in untrusted cloud environment is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Mehmet Kuzu , Mohammad Saiful Islam , Murat Kantarcioglu

Searchable symmetric encryption enables private queries over an encrypted database, but it also yields information leakages. Adversaries can exploit these leakages to launch injection attacks (Zhang et al., USENIX'16) to recover the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xianglong Zhang , Wei Wang , Peng Xu , Laurence T. Yang , Kaitai Liang