Privacy-preserving noisy keyword search in cloud computing

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoqiong Pang;Bo Yang;Qiong Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China,North University of China, Taiyuan, China;Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China;South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

  • Venue:
  • ICICS'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider the following problem: a user with either limited resources or limited expertise wants to outsource its private documens, which are associated with noisy keywords, to an untrusted cloud server in a private manner, while maintaining the ability to retrieve the stored data in a fault-tolerant manner. For example, the organization of homeland security wishes to outsource its private criminal database comprised of a set of criminal dossiers to the cloud server in encrypted form and hopes to retrieve encrypted dossiers by biometrics. In this paper, we first present a general framework for searching on private-key encrypted data by noisy keywords in a fault-tolerant manner. Then we propose a concrete scheme which is proved secure against an adaptive adversary under well-defined security definition. It achieves search in two rounds of communication, and requires an amount of work from the server that is linear in the number of noisy keywords.