Leakage-Abuse Attacks Against Searchable Encryption

Schemes for secure outsourcing of client data with search capability are being increasingly marketed and deployed. In the literature, schemes for accomplishing this efficiently are called Searchable Encryption (SE). They achieve high efficiency with provable security by means of a quantifiable leakage profile. However, the degree to which SE leakage can be exploited by an adversary is not well understood.

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Award: CNS-1546033, CNS-1330308, CNS-1065134, CNS-1453132
• DA
  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  Award: FA8750-13-2-005