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Paper 2017/661

MuSE: Multimodal Searchable Encryption for Cloud Applications

Bernardo Ferreira and João Leitão and Henrique Domingos

Abstract

In this paper we tackle the practical challenges of searching encrypted multimodal data (i.e. data containing multiple media formats), stored in public cloud servers, with minimal information leakage. To this end we propose MuSE, a Multimodal Searchable Encryption scheme that, by combining only standard cryptographic primitives and symmetric-key block ciphers, allows cloud-backed applications to dynamically store, update, and search multimodal datasets with privacy and efficiency guarantees. As searching encrypted data requires a tradeoff between privacy and efficiency, we propose a variant of MuSE that resorts to partially homomorphic encryption to further reduce information leakage, but at the cost of additional computational overhead. Both schemes are formally proven secure and experimentally evaluated regarding performance, scalability, and search precision. Experiments with realistic datasets show that our contributions achieve interesting levels of efficiency and privacy, making them suitable for practical application scenarios.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
Cloud ComputingSearchable EncryptionMultimodal Data
Contact author(s)
bf @ fct unl pt
History
2018-07-23: last of 2 revisions
2017-07-05: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/661
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY
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