Research Article
Efficient Verifiable Multi-user Searchable Symmetric Encryption for Encrypted Data in the Cloud
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-69605-8_16, author={Lanxiang Chen and Nan Zhang}, title={Efficient Verifiable Multi-user Searchable Symmetric Encryption for Encrypted Data in the Cloud}, proceedings={Cloud Computing, Security, Privacy in New Computing Environments. 7th International Conference, CloudComp 2016, and First International Conference, SPNCE 2016, Guangzhou, China, November 25--26, and December 15--16, 2016, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={CLOUDCOMP}, year={2017}, month={11}, keywords={Cloud storage Searchable symmetric encryption Integrity verification Multi-user searchable encryption}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-69605-8_16} }- Lanxiang Chen
Nan Zhang
Year: 2017
Efficient Verifiable Multi-user Searchable Symmetric Encryption for Encrypted Data in the Cloud
CLOUDCOMP
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69605-8_16
Abstract
Encryption is the basic technology to ensure the security of the data in the cloud, while ciphertext search is the key to improve the usability of the cloud storage. Most of the searchable encryption schemes consider the honest-but-curious or semi-honest cloud server. However, cloud storage in reality may be unreliable or even malicious. In this case, the encrypted data and search results returned by the server is not completely trustable, so it is crucial to verify the integrity of search results and encrypted data. Considering the untrusted cloud server security model, this paper proposes an efficient verifiable multi-user searchable symmetric encryption (VMSSE) scheme. It is efficient both in computation and storage. In particular, the work performed by the server per returned document is constant as opposed to linear in the size of the data. The computation and storage at the user is O(1). It allows the user to verify the search was computed honestly in the presence of a dishonest-and-curious server. And it supports multi-user searching. Finally, the security analysis shows that it is an efficient and feasible scheme.
