SECURING SEARCH SYSTEMS: AN END-TO-END ENCRYPTION FRAMEWORK FOR PRIVACY PRESERVATION
Muskaan Mongia · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY · 2024
Modern search engines now face great difficulty in securing personally identifiable information (PII) given the exponential expansion in digital data processing and growing privacy protection issues.This article offers a complete architectural framework using encryption at every level of search infrastructure, therefore providing a creative method of privacy protection without compromising system performance.There are seven linked security elements in the framework that cooperate to provide unbreakable protection against privacy violations.Client-side encryption guarantees that searches are secured before transmission at the user interface level; Transport Layer Security (TLS) guarantees safe data transit across networks.Strong server-side encryption systems and particular database encryption methods for kept data help the framework to improve data safety even more.