Secure Inverted Index Based Search over Encrypted Cloud Data with User Access Rights Management

dc.contributor.authorBoucenna, Fateh
dc.contributor.authorNouali, Omar
dc.contributor.authorKechid, Samir
dc.contributor.authorKechadi, M. Tahar
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-07T15:28:49Z
dc.date.available2019-02-07T15:28:49Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-18
dc.description.abstractCloud computing is a technology that provides users with a large storage space and an enormous computing power. However, the outsourced data are often sensitive and confidential, and hence must be encrypted before being outsourced. Consequently, classical search approaches have become obsolete and new approaches that are compatible with encrypted data have become a necessity. For privacy reasons, most of these approaches are based on the vector model which is a time consuming process since the entire index must be loaded and exploited during the search process given that the query vector must be compared with each document vector. To solve this problem, we propose a new method for constructing a secure inverted index using two key techniques, homomorphic encryption and the dummy documents technique. However, 1) homomorphic encryption generates very large ciphertexts which are thousands of times larger than their corresponding plaintexts, and 2) the dummy documents technique that enhances the index security produces lots of false positives in the search results. The proposed approach exploits the advantages of these two techniques by proposing two methods called the compressed table of encrypted scores and the double score formula. Moreover, we exploit a second secure inverted index in order to manage the users’ access rights to the data. Finally, in order to validate our approach, we performed an experimental study using a data collection of one million documents. The experiments show that our approach is many times faster than any other approach based on the vector model.fr_FR
dc.identifier.issn1000-9000 (Print) 1860-4749 (Online)fr_FR
dc.identifier.urihttp://dl.cerist.dz/handle/CERIST/933
dc.publisherSpringerfr_FR
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Computer Science and Technology;34(1)
dc.relation.pages133-154fr_FR
dc.structureSécurité des réseauxfr_FR
dc.subjectsearchable encryption, cloud computing, homomorphic encryption, attribute-based encryption, inverted indexfr_FR
dc.titleSecure Inverted Index Based Search over Encrypted Cloud Data with User Access Rights Managementfr_FR
dc.typeArticle
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