Paper 2022/738

Secure Search on Multi-key Homomorphically Encrypted Data with Finite Fields

Buvana Ganesh, University College Cork
Paolo Palmieri, University College Cork
Abstract

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is a very attractive solution to ensure privacy when outsourcing confidential data to the cloud, as it enables computation on the data without decryption. As the next step, searching this homomorphic data becomes necessary to navigate it in the server. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to search homomorphically encrypted data outsourced to an untrusted server and shared with multiple users. We optimize the steps involved in the process to reduce the number of rounds of communication. We use an order-preserving encoding to batch the data with multi-key HE cryptosystems to reduce the multiplicative depth of the equality circuits and enable direct comparison. Further, we use LEAF to retrieve indices securely, and SealPIR to retrieve the values obliviously to the user. Overall, we provide an efficient end-to-end framework for searching shared data in a semi-honest server.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
homomorphic encryption multi-key HE Secure Search Finite fields Encrypted databases data sharing
Contact author(s)
b ganesh @ cs ucc ie
p palmieri @ cs ucc ie
History
2022-06-09: approved
2022-06-09: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/738
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/738,
      author = {Buvana Ganesh and Paolo Palmieri},
      title = {Secure Search on Multi-key Homomorphically Encrypted Data with Finite Fields},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/738},
      year = {2022},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/738}
}
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