Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/251

How to Construct UC-Secure Searchable Symmetric Encryption Scheme

Kaoru Kurosawa and Yasuhiro Ohtaki

Abstract: A searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) scheme allows a client to store a set of encrypted files on an untrusted server in such a way that he can efficiently retrieve some of the encrypted files containing (or indexed by) specific keywords keeping the keywords and the files secret. In this paper, we first extend the model of SSE schemes to that of verifiable SSE schemes, and formulate the UC security. We then prove its weak equivalence with privacy and reliability. Finally we show an efficient verifiable SSE scheme which is UC-secure.

Category / Keywords: secret-key cryptography / searchable symmetric encryption, UC-security, symmetric-key encryption

Original Publication (with major differences): FC 2012

Date: received 17 Mar 2015, last revised 19 Mar 2015

Contact author: kurosawa at mx ibaraki ac jp

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Version: 20150320:013458 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2015/251

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