Protecting Your Right: Verifiable Attribute-Based Keyword Search with Fine-Grained Owner-Enforced Search Authorization in the Cloud

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 1187 - 1198
• Main Authors: Wenhai Sun, Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, Hou, Y. Thomas, Hui Li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Authorization; Cloud computing; Construction; Datasets; Design analysis; Encryption; Indexes; Keyword search; Policies; Searching; Security; Servers; Cloud computing; multi-user search; verifiable search; attribute-based keyword search; fine-grained owner-enforced search authorization

Search over encrypted data is a critically important enabling technique in cloud computing, where encryption-before-outsourcing is a fundamental solution to protecting user data privacy in the untrusted cloud server environment. Many secure search schemes have been focusing on the single-contributor...