Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage

Ensuring the cloud data security is a major concern for corporate cloud subscribers and in some cases for the private cloud users. Confidentiality of the stored data can be managed by encrypting the data at the client side before outsourcing it to the remote cloud storage server. However, once the d...

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Main Authors: Salam, M., Yau, W., Chin, J., Heng, S., Ling, Huo Chong, Phan, R., Poh, G., Tan, S., Yap, W.
Format: Journal Article
Published: springer berlin 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19937
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author Salam, M.
Yau, W.
Chin, J.
Heng, S.
Ling, Huo Chong
Phan, R.
Poh, G.
Tan, S.
Yap, W.
author_facet Salam, M.
Yau, W.
Chin, J.
Heng, S.
Ling, Huo Chong
Phan, R.
Poh, G.
Tan, S.
Yap, W.
author_sort Salam, M.
building Curtin Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description Ensuring the cloud data security is a major concern for corporate cloud subscribers and in some cases for the private cloud users. Confidentiality of the stored data can be managed by encrypting the data at the client side before outsourcing it to the remote cloud storage server. However, once the data is encrypted, it will limit server’s capability for keyword search since the data is encrypted and server simply cannot make a plaintext keyword search on encrypted data. But again we need the keyword search functionality for efficient retrieval of data. To maintain user’s data confidentiality, the keyword search functionality should be able to perform over encrypted cloud data and additionally it should not leak any information about the searched keyword or the retrieved document. This is known as privacy preserving keyword search. This paper aims to study privacy preserving keyword search over encrypted cloud data. Also, we present our implementation of a privacy preserving data storage and retrieval system in cloud computing. For our implementation, we have chosen one of the symmetric key primitives due to its efficiency in mobile environments. The implemented scheme enables a user to store data securely in the cloud by encrypting it before outsourcing and also provides user capability to search over the encrypted data without revealing any information about the data or the query.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-199372017-09-13T13:48:57Z Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage Salam, M. Yau, W. Chin, J. Heng, S. Ling, Huo Chong Phan, R. Poh, G. Tan, S. Yap, W. Ensuring the cloud data security is a major concern for corporate cloud subscribers and in some cases for the private cloud users. Confidentiality of the stored data can be managed by encrypting the data at the client side before outsourcing it to the remote cloud storage server. However, once the data is encrypted, it will limit server’s capability for keyword search since the data is encrypted and server simply cannot make a plaintext keyword search on encrypted data. But again we need the keyword search functionality for efficient retrieval of data. To maintain user’s data confidentiality, the keyword search functionality should be able to perform over encrypted cloud data and additionally it should not leak any information about the searched keyword or the retrieved document. This is known as privacy preserving keyword search. This paper aims to study privacy preserving keyword search over encrypted cloud data. Also, we present our implementation of a privacy preserving data storage and retrieval system in cloud computing. For our implementation, we have chosen one of the symmetric key primitives due to its efficiency in mobile environments. The implemented scheme enables a user to store data securely in the cloud by encrypting it before outsourcing and also provides user capability to search over the encrypted data without revealing any information about the data or the query. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19937 10.1186/s13673-015-0039-9 springer berlin unknown
spellingShingle Salam, M.
Yau, W.
Chin, J.
Heng, S.
Ling, Huo Chong
Phan, R.
Poh, G.
Tan, S.
Yap, W.
Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage
title Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage
title_full Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage
title_fullStr Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage
title_full_unstemmed Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage
title_short Implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage
title_sort implementation of searchable symmetric encryption for privacy-preserving keyword search on cloud storage
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19937