Private database queries using somewhat homomorphic encryption
ACNS'13 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
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Real-world applications commonly require untrusting parties to share sensitive information securely. This article describes a secure anonymous database search (SADS) system that provides exact keyword match capability. Using a new reroutable encryption and the ideas of Bloom filters and deterministic encryption, SADS lets multiple parties efficiently execute exact-match queries over distributed encrypted databases in a controlled manner. This article further considers a more general search setting allowing similarity searches, going beyond existing work that considers similarity in terms of error tolerance and Hamming distance. This article presents a general framework, built on the cryptographic and privacy-preserving guarantees of the SADS primitive, for engineering usable private secure search systems.