• DocumentCode
    2174161
  • Title

    Weakness of provably secure searchable encryption against frequency analysis

  • Author

    Suga, Takashi ; Nishide, Takashi ; Sakurai, Kimio

  • Author_Institution
    Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    12-14 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    142
  • Lastpage
    147
  • Abstract
    There are encryption schemes called searchable encryption schemes. We can prove the security of these schemes based on a security model. However, we face the risk of the frequency analysis in some constructions because these schemes encrypt the keywords per word in the file as well as itself. In this attack, we assume an adversary knows the frequency distribution of plaintexts (i.e., keywords), and an adversary measures the frequency of the ciphertext and guesses the plaintext by comparing the frequency of the plaintext with it. In this work, we apply this attack to the existing works and evaluate the resistance of the searchable encryption to this attack by considering the difference between the deterministic encryption and the probabilistic encryption, and the supported types of searches.
  • Keywords
    cryptography; probability; ciphertext; deterministic encryption; frequency analysis; frequency distribution; keywords; plaintext; probabilistic encryption; provably secure searchable encryption schemes; security model;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications, Computers and Applications (MIC-CCA), 2012 Mosharaka International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5230-7
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6516798