Secure Index Searching Schemes for Groups
Hyun-A Park, Byun Jin-Uk, Lee Hyun-Suk, Donghun Lee · Information Security and Cryptology · 2005
A secure index search protocol let us search the index of encrypted documents using the trapdoor for a keyword. It enables an untrusted server to learn nothing more than the search result about the documents without revealing the keyword. A lot of secure search protocols have been suggested but they only considered the search between a single-user and a server. In real organizations such as government offices or enterprises where exist many hierarchical departments, the search system for groups is arisen more often. In this paper, we construct secure index search protocols for hierarchical group settings without re-encryption of the old encrypted documents when group keys are re-keyed newly.