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Secure Multi-Character Searchable Encryption Supporting Rich Search Functionalities

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Qiong Wang
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Donghui Hu
李萌 (Meng Li)
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Yan Qiao
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Guomin Yang
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Mauro Conti
DOI:10.1109/TKDE.2025.3650082delete
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Wildcard Keyword Searchable Encryption (WKSE) has grown into a ubiquitous tool. It enables clients to search desired files with wildcard expressions. Although promising, previous schemes confront three barriers: (1) An adversary can launch a correlation attack to acquire the similarity between keywords. (2) The WKSE schemes exhibit false positives which can lead to wrong search results. (3) Existing feature extraction strategies limit the flexibility of search expressions. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Character Searchable Encryption scheme (MCSE) that overcomes the aforementioned barriers. To resist correlation attacks, we design the randomize-pad model to encrypt the vector. To eradicate false positives, we apply the vector space model and complete feature extraction strategies so that a feature set uniquely identifies a keyword or expression. To enhance search flexibility, we introduce three distinct feature extraction strategies for keyword expressions, wildcard expressions, and logical expressions, enabling effective multi-character search. These strategies enable indexes to accommodate the search of diverse expressions. Finally, we prove that MCSE is indistinguishable against chosen-feature attacks and implement MCSE on two real datasets. Compared with state-of-the-art schemes, the experiment results show that MCSE achieves good performance.
Keywords:
Searchable encryption
wildcard expression
logical expression
correlation attack
feature extraction strategy

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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering cover
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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