• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1328-1342
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• 2013

Searchable encryption is a cryptographic protocol for searching a document in encrypted databases. A simple searchable encryption protocol, which is capable of using only one keyword at one time, is very limited and cannot satisfy demands of various applications. Thus, designing a searchable encryption with useful additional functions, for example, conjunctive keyword search, is one of the most important goals. There have been many attempts to construct a searchable encryption with conjunctive keyword search. However, most of the previously proposed protocols are based on public-key cryptosystems which require a large amount of computational cost. Moreover, the amount of computation in search procedure depends on the number of documents stored in the database. These previously proposed protocols are not suitable for extremely large data sets. In this paper, we propose a new searchable encryption protocol with a conjunctive keyword search based on a linked tree structure instead of public-key based techniques. The protocol requires a remarkably small computational cost, particularly when applied to extremely large databases. Actually, the amount of computation in search procedure depends on the number of documents matched to the query, instead of the size of the entire database.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.811-819
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• 2012

In this paper, we design searchable image encryption system to provide the privacy and authentication on streaming media based on cloud computing. The searchable encryption system is the matrix of searchable image encryption system by extending the streaming search from text search, the search of the streaming service is available, and supports personal privacy and authentication using encryption/decryption and CBIR technique. In simple simulation of post-cut and image keyword creation, we can verify the possibilities of the searchable image encryption system based on streaming service.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.287-300
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• 2013

Cloud storage is provided as a service in order to keep pace with the increasing use of digital information. It can be used to store data via networks and various devices and is easy to access. Unlike existing removable storage, many users can use cloud storage because it has no storage capacity limit and does not require a storage medium. Cloud storage reliability has become a topic of importance, as many users employ it for saving great volumes of data. For protection against unethical administrators and attackers, a variety of cryptography systems, such as searchable encryption and proxy re-encryption, are being applied to cloud storage systems. However, the existing searchable encryption technology is inconvenient to use in a cloud storage environment where users upload their data. This is because this data is shared with others, as necessary, and the users with whom the data is shared change frequently. In this paper, we propose a searchable re-encryption scheme in which a user can safely share data with others by generating a searchable encryption index and then re-encrypt it.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.3-15
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• 2008

In 2000, Song. et. al. firstly proposed the Searchable Keyword Encryption System that treated a problem to search keywords on encrypted data. Since then, various Searchable Keyword Encryption Systems based on symmetric and asymmetric methods have been proposed. However, the Searchable Keyword Encryption Systems based on public key system has a problem that the index size for searching keywords on encrypted data increases linearly according to the number of keyword. In this paper, we propose the method that reduces the index size of Searchable Keyword Encryption based on public key system using Bloom Filter, apply the proposed method to PEKS(Public key Encryption with Keyword Search) that was proposed by Boneh. et. al., and analyze efficiency for the aspect of storage.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.5-14
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• 2014

Searchable encryption systems provide search on encrypted data while preserving the privacy of the data and the search keywords used in queries. Recently, interest on data outsourcing has increased due to proliferation of cloud computing services. Many researches are on going to minimize the trust put on external servers and searchable encryption is one of them. However, most of previous searchable encryption schemes provide only a single keyword boolean search. Although, there have been proposals to provide conjunctive keyword search, most of these works use a fixed field which limit their application. In this paper, we propose a field-free conjunctive keyword searchable encryption that also provides rank information of search results. Our system uses prime tables and greatest common divisor operation, making our system very efficient. Moreover, our system is practical and can be implemented very easily since it does not require sophisticated cryptographic module.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.79-89
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• 2013

Recently, the need for outsourcing sensitive data has grown due to the wide spreading of cost-effective and flexible cloud service. However, there is a fundamental concern in using such service since users have to trust external servers. Therefore, searchable encryption can be a very valuable tool to meet the security requirements of data outsourcing. However, most of work on searchable encryption focus only on privacy preserving search function and relatively lacks research on encryption mechanism used to actually encrypt data. Without a suitable latter mechanism, searchable encryption cannot be deployed in real world cloud services. In this paper, we analyze previously used and possible data encryption mechanisms for multi-user searchable encryption system and discuss their pros and cons. Our results show that readily available tools such as broadcast encryption, attribute-based encryption, and proxy re-encryption do not provide suitable solutions. The main problem with existing tools is that they may require separate fully trusted servers and the difficulty in preventing collusion attacks between outsiders and semi-trusted servers.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1286-1306
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• 2022

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) provides a safe and effective solution for retrieving encrypted data on cloud servers. However, the existing SSE schemes mainly focus on single keyword search in single client, which is inefficient for multiple keywords and cannot meet the needs for multiple clients. Considering the above drawbacks, we propose a scheme enabling dynamic multi-client and Boolean query in searchable symmetric encryption for cloud storage system (DMC-SSE). DMC-SSE realizes the fine-grained access control of multi-client in SSE by attribute-based encryption (ABE) and novel access control list (ACL), and supports Boolean query of multiple keywords. In addition, DMC-SSE realizes the full dynamic update of client and file. Compared with the existing multi-client schemes, our scheme has the following advantages: 1) Dynamic. DMC-SSE not only supports the dynamic addition or deletion of multiple clients, but also realizes the dynamic update of files. 2) Non-interactivity. After being authorized, the client can query keywords without the help of the data owner and the data owner can dynamically update client's permissions without requiring the client to stay online. At last, the security analysis and experiments results demonstrate that our scheme is safe and efficient.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.4624-4640
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• 2017

This paper mainly presents a secure and efficient e-Medical Record System via searchable encryption scheme from asymmetric pairings, which could provide privacy data search and encrypt function for patients and doctors in public platform. The core technique of this system is an extension public key encryption system with keyword search, which the server could test whether or not the files stored in platform contain the keyword without leaking the information about the encrypted file. Compared with former e-medical record systems, the system proposed here has several superior features: (1)Users could search the data stored in cloud server contains some keywords without leaking anything about the origin data. (2) We apply asymmetric pairings to achieve shorter key size scheme in the standard model, and adopt the dual system encryption technique to reduce the scheme's secure problem to the hard Symmetric External Diffie-Hellman assumption, which could against the variety of attacks in the future complex network environment. (3) In the last of paper, we analyze the scheme's efficiency and point out that our scheme is more efficient and secure than some other classical searchable encryption models.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.2258-2274
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• 2020

In this paper we first propose a new cryptosystem based on our data hiding scheme (2,9,8) introduced in 2019 with high security, where encrypting and hiding are done at once, the ciphertext does not depend on the input image size as existing hybrid techniques of cryptography and steganography. We then exploit our automata approach presented in 2019 to design two algorithms for exact and approximate pattern matching on secret data encrypted by our cryptosystem. Theoretical analyses remark that these algorithms both have O(n) time complexity in the worst case, where for the approximate algorithm, we assume that it uses ⌈(1-ε)m)⌉ processors, where ε, m and n are the error of our string similarity measure and lengths of the pattern and secret data, respectively. In searchable encryption, our cryptosystem is used by users and our pattern matching algorithms are performed by cloud providers.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.56-61
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• 2012

User authentication is a necessity to set up secure system which only an authorized user can use various resource on the Internet. Encryption is to provide data privacy. Also, searchable encryption is to provide both data privacy and efficient management of data by searching with a keyword. The public key based searchable encryption requires in advance the authentication of user's public key as well as the secure management of a publlic/private key of a user, respectively. In cloud, it is purpose to use cloud various resources by using various devices, meanwhile, it is not sufficient resource that some devices manage public/private keys and certificates and it is not easy to implement these clients. To solve this problem, we propose a password-based saerchable encryption using smart cards which are temper-resistant devices.