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A Searchable Encryption Scheme Based on Elliptic Curves

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Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications (WAINA 2020)

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As in the present we live in the era of the digitalized data, we need to protect our data against malicious users. Cloud computing represents a key technology nowadays, due to its numerous advantages, but it raises some concerns about security. Along the years, many security techniques have been proposed. One important technique is searchable encryption, which allows an authorized user to submit encrypted search queries over encrypted data. The elliptic curves have attracted the researchers’ attention, because of many reasons. Elliptic curves cryptography (CC) provides a good security regarding a key size. In ECC, the cryptographic operations run faster on smaller chips or complex software, because of compact implementation provided by a small key size. The basis of ECC is the discrete logarithm problem, which can be extremely difficult in some conditions. In this paper we propose a searchable encryption scheme based on elliptic curves, where in the encryption process we will use a variation of complex quadratic polynomial.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Stefania Loredana Nita

  2. Dapyx Solution LTD., Bucharest, Romania

    Marius Iulian Mihailescu

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Frederico II”, Naples, Italy

    Flora Amato

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy

    Francesco Moscato

  4. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

  5. Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Nita, S.L., Mihailescu, M.I. (2020). A Searchable Encryption Scheme Based on Elliptic Curves. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications. WAINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_74

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