Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes

The Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Scheme (PEKS) was first proposed by Boneh et al. in 2004. This scheme solves the problem of searching on data that is encrypted using a public key setting. Recently, Back et al. proposed a Secure Channel Free Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search (SC...

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Main Authors: Wei-Chuen, Yau, Swee-Huay, Heng, Bok-Min, Goi
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Published: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN 2008
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author Wei-Chuen, Yau
Swee-Huay, Heng
Bok-Min, Goi
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Swee-Huay, Heng
Bok-Min, Goi
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description The Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Scheme (PEKS) was first proposed by Boneh et al. in 2004. This scheme solves the problem of searching on data that is encrypted using a public key setting. Recently, Back et al. proposed a Secure Channel Free Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search (SCF-PEKS) scheme that removes the secure channel for sending trapdoors. They later proposed another improved PEKS scheme that integrates with a public key encryption (PKE) scheme, called PKE/PEKS. In this paper, we present off-line keyword guessing attacks on SCF-PEKS and PKE/PEKS schemes. We demonstrate that outsider adversaries that capture the trapdoors sent in a public channel can reveal encrypted keywords by performing off-line keyword guessing attacks. While, insider adversaries can perform the attacks regardless the trapdoors sent in a public or secure channel.
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spelling mmu-27862011-09-14T05:40:17Z http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/2786/ Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes Wei-Chuen, Yau Swee-Huay, Heng Bok-Min, Goi T Technology (General) QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science The Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Scheme (PEKS) was first proposed by Boneh et al. in 2004. This scheme solves the problem of searching on data that is encrypted using a public key setting. Recently, Back et al. proposed a Secure Channel Free Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search (SCF-PEKS) scheme that removes the secure channel for sending trapdoors. They later proposed another improved PEKS scheme that integrates with a public key encryption (PKE) scheme, called PKE/PEKS. In this paper, we present off-line keyword guessing attacks on SCF-PEKS and PKE/PEKS schemes. We demonstrate that outsider adversaries that capture the trapdoors sent in a public channel can reveal encrypted keywords by performing off-line keyword guessing attacks. While, insider adversaries can perform the attacks regardless the trapdoors sent in a public or secure channel. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN 2008 Article NonPeerReviewed Wei-Chuen, Yau and Swee-Huay, Heng and Bok-Min, Goi (2008) Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes. AUTONOMIC AND TRUSTED COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, 5060. pp. 100-105. http://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=1&SID=X18DcEAFF3IHaF4gfEh&page=83&doc=824
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
Wei-Chuen, Yau
Swee-Huay, Heng
Bok-Min, Goi
Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes
title Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes
title_full Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes
title_fullStr Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes
title_full_unstemmed Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes
title_short Off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Schemes
title_sort off-line keyword guessing attacks on recent public key encryption with keyword search schemes
topic T Technology (General)
QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
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