The increasing adoption of cloud storage by organisations and individuals necessitates robust mechanisms to safeguard data confidentiality while preserving usability. Searchable encryption addresses ...

Abstract: Searchable encryption allows querying over encrypted data without revealing sensitive information. However, many existing schemes expose partial data characteristics, such as exact plaintext ...

Abstract: Gui et al. (S&P 2023) first proposed an attack exploiting vulnerabilities in document retrieval to reconstruct queries. In response, they (PETS 2024) introduced the first searchable ...

The security of traditional attribute-based searchable encryption schemes relies on traditional number-theoretic assumptions, and thus they are not able to resist the threat of quantum algorithms.

After years of data breaches, leaks, and hacks leaving the world desperate for tools to stem the illicit flow of sensitive personal data, a key advance has appeared on the horizon. On Tuesday, MongoDB ...

CORK, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vaultree today announced the release of its Data-in-Use Encryption for Google’s AlloyDB - available now for preview trial. As a launch partner with Google’s AlloyDB, ...

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Searchable application-layer encryption with Cloaked Search allows companies to encrypt sensitive data stored in search services like OpenSearch and Elasticsearch "The new features we've added to ...

Modern applications that handle sensitive user data—such as healthcare, financial, or membership systems—must ensure that all personally identifiable information (PII) is properly encrypted at rest.

fails completely — the database is comparing your search string against encrypted garbage, not names. The naive fix — decrypt everything first, then search — defeats the entire point of encrypting the ...