Enabling Secure and Efficient Ranked Keyword Search over Outsourced Cloud Data

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 23; no. 8; pp. 1467 - 1479
• Main Authors: Wang, Cong, Cao, Ning, Ren, Kui, Lou, Wenjing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.08.2012
• Subjects: Cloud computing; confidential data; Encryption; Indexes; Keyword search; order-preserving mapping; Ranked search; searchable encryption; Servers
• ISSN: 1045-9219
• DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.282

Cloud computing economically enables the paradigm of data service outsourcing. However, to protect data privacy, sensitive cloud data have to be encrypted before outsourced to the commercial public cloud, which makes effective data utilization service a very challenging task. Although traditional se...