Attribute-Based Symmetric Searchable Encryption

Dang, Hai-Van; Ullah, Amjad; Bakas, Alexandros; Michalas, Antonis

Abstract

Symmetric Searchable Encryption (SSE) is an encryption technique that allows users to search directly on their outsourced encrypted data while preserving the privacy of both the files and the queries. Unfortunately, majority of the SSE schemes allows users to either decrypt the whole ciphertext or nothing at all. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme based on traditional symmetric primitives, that allows data owners to bind parts of their ciphertexts with specific policies. Inspired by the concept of Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) in the public setting, we design a scheme through which users can recover only certain parts of an encrypted document if and only if they retain a set of attributes that satisfy a policy. Our construction satisfies the important notion of forward privacy while at the same time supports the multi-client model by leveraging SGX functionality for the synchronization of users. To prove the correctness of our approach, we provide a detailed simulation-based security analysis coupled with an extensive experimental evaluation that shows the effectiveness of our scheme.

Citation

Dang, H., Ullah, A., Bakas, A., & Michalas, A. (2020). Attribute-Based Symmetric Searchable Encryption. In Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops (318-336). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61638-0_18

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
• Start Date: Oct 19, 2020
• End Date: Oct 22, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Oct 14, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 27, 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 318-336
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 12418
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops
• ISBN: 978-3-030-61637-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61638-0_18
• Keywords: Cloud security, Database security, Forward privacy, Symmetric searchable encryption
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2789412