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With the increasing popularity of social networks in the globalized environment, the process of sharing data and information from anywhere at anytime has become easier and faster. Furthermore, cloud based computing and storage services have become mainstream. Unfortunately, if the information is on the Internet, it is susceptible to attacks leading to leakage and hence needs to be encrypted. Searchable encryption is a way to obtain efficient access to a large encrypted database, improving the data security even when it is stored on untrusted servers. We present few applications which can use and benefit from searchable encryption and explain how secrecy of the data is maintained without compromising usability.
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Raso Mattos, L.R., Varadharajan, V., Nallusamy, R. (2012). Data Protection and Privacy Preservation Using Searchable Encryption on Outsourced Databases. In: Thampi, S.M., Zomaya, A.Y., Strufe, T., Alcaraz Calero, J.M., Thomas, T. (eds) Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security. SNDS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34135-9_18
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