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Secure mobile health system supporting search function and decryption verification

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In order to protect the privacy of the data, the data owners encrypt their sensitive data before transferring it to cloud servers. This method leads to the inability to search over these data. To tackle these challenges, we propose a Secure Mobile Health System (SMHS) supporting search function and decryption verification by using online/offline attribute-based encryption. The new scheme provides a secure Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and efficient searching over the health cloud. In the security analysis, the proposed scheme is proved in the standard model. In addition, we explain via experimental results with a comparison to similar existing protocols that the SMHS can significantly reduce the computation cost in the mobile health system.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61872058) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. ZYGX2016J081).

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  1. Center for Cyber Security, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China

    Nabeil Eltayieb, Rashad Elhabob & Fagen Li

  2. School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Alzubair Hassan

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Eltayieb, N., Elhabob, R., Hassan, A. et al. Secure mobile health system supporting search function and decryption verification. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 12, 2221–2231 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-020-02321-3

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