A SECURE AND DYNAMIC MULTI-KEYWORD RANKED SEARCH SCHEME OVER ENCRYPTED CLOUD DATA

A SECURE AND DYNAMIC MULTI-KEYWORD RANKED SEARCH
SCHEME OVER ENCRYPTED CLOUD DATA
Abstract—Due to the increasing popularity of cloud computing, more and more
data owners are motivated to outsource their data to cloud servers for great
convenience and reduced cost in data management. However, sensitive data should
be encrypted before outsourcing for privacy requirements, which obsoletes data
utilization like keyword-based document retrieval. In this paper, we present a
secure multi-keyword ranked search scheme over encrypted cloud data, which
simultaneously supports dynamic update operations like deletion and insertion of
documents. Specifically, the vector space model and the widely-used TF_IDF
model are combined in the index construction and query generation. We construct
a special tree-based index structure and propose a “Greedy Depth-first Search”
algorithm to provide efficient multi-keyword ranked search. The secure kNN
algorithm is utilized to encrypt the index and query vectors, and meanwhile ensure
accurate relevance score calculation between encrypted index and query vectors. In
order to resist statistical attacks, phantom terms are added to the index vector for
blinding search results . Due to the use of our special tree-based index structure,
the proposed scheme can achieve sub-linear search time and deal with the deletion
and insertion of documents flexibly. Extensive experiments are conducted to
demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.
EXISTING SYSTEM:

Searchable encryption schemes enable the clients to store the encrypted data to the
cloud and execute keyword search over ciphertext domain. Due to different
cryptography primitives, searchable encryption schemes can be constructed using
public key based cryptography or symmetric key based cryptography. Song et al.
proposed the first symmetric searchable encryption (SSE) scheme, and the search
time of their scheme is linear to the size of the data collection. Goh proposed
formal security definitions for SSE and designed a scheme based on Bloom filter.
The search time of Goh’s scheme is O (n), where n is the cardinality of the
document collection. Curtmola et al. proposed two schemes (SSE-1 and SSE-2)
which achieve the optimal search time. Their SSE-1 scheme is secure against
chosen-keyword attacks (CKA1) and SSE-2 is secure against adaptive chosen-
keyword attacks (CKA2) schemes, which are very simple in terms of functionality.
Afterward, abundant works have been proposed under different threat models to
achieve various search functionality, such as single keyword search, similarity
search , multi-keyword boolean search , ranked search and multi-keyword ranked
search, etc. Multi-keyword boolean search allows the users to input multiple query
keywords to request suitable documents. Among these works, conjunctive keyword
search schemes only return the documents that contain all of the query keywords.
Disjunctive keyword search schemes return all of the documents that contain a
subset of the query keywords. Predicate search schemes are proposed to support
both conjunctive and disjunctive search. All these multikeyword search schemes
retrieve search results based on the existence of keywords, which cannot provide
acceptable result ranking functionality. Ranked search an enable quick search of
the most relevant data. Sending back only the top-k most relevant documents can

effectively decrease network traffic. Some early works have realized the ranked
search using order-preserving techniques, but they are designed only for single
keyword search. Cao et al. realized the first privacy-preserving multi-keyword
ranked search scheme, in which documents and queries are represented as vectors
of dictionary size. With the “coordinate matching”, the documents are ranked
according to the number of matched query keywords. However, Cao et al.’s
scheme does not consider the importance of the different keywords, and thus is not
accurate enough. In addition, the search efficiency of the scheme is linear with the
cardinality of document collection. Sun et al. presented a secure multi-keyword
search scheme that supports similarity-based ranking. The authors constructed a
searchable index tree based on vector space model and adopted cosine measure
together with TF×IDF to provide ranking results
PROPOSED SYSTEM:
Due to the special structure of our tree-based index, the proposed search scheme
can flexibly achieve sub-linear search time and deal with the deletion and insertion
of documents. The secure kNN algorithm is utilized to encrypt the index and query
vectors, and meanwhile ensure accurate relevance score calculation between
encrypted index and query vectors. To resist different attacks in different threat
models, we construct two secure search schemes: the basic dynamic multi-keyword
ranked search (BDMRS) scheme in the known ciphertext model, and the enhanced
dynamic multi-keyword ranked search (EDMRS) scheme in the known
background model. Our contributions are summarized as follows:

1) We design a searchable encryption scheme that supports both the accurate
multi-keyword ranked search and flexible dynamic operation on document
collection.
2) Due to the special structure of our tree-based index, the search complexity of the
proposed scheme is fundamentally kept to logarithmic. And in practice, the
proposed scheme can achieve higher search efficiency by executing our “Greedy
Depth-first Search” algorithm. Moreover, parallel search can be flexibly performed
to further reduce the time cost of search process.
Module 1
The System and Threat Models
The system model in this paper involves three different entities: data owner, data
user and cloud server.
Data owner has a collection of documents F ={f1; f2; :::; fn} that he wants to
outsource to the cloud server in encrypted form while still keeping the capability to
search on them for effective utilization. In our scheme, the data owner firstly builds
a secure searchable tree index I from document collection F, and then generates an
encrypted document collection C for F. Afterwards, the data owner outsources the
encrypted collection C and the secure index I to the cloud server, and securely
distributes the key information of trapdoor generation (including keyword IDF
values) and document decryption to the authorized data users. Besides, the data
owner is responsible for the update

operation of his documents stored in the cloud server. While updating, the data
owner generates the update information locally and sends it to the server.
Data users are authorized ones to access the documents of data owner. With t
query keywords, the authorized user can generate a trapdoor TD according to
search control mechanisms to fetch k encrypted documents from cloud server.
Then, the data user can decrypt the documents with the shared secret key.
Cloud server stores the encrypted document collection C and the encrypted
searchable tree index I for data owner. Upon receiving the trapdoor TD from the
data user, the cloud server executes search over the index tree I, and finally returns
the corresponding collection of top-k ranked encrypted documents. Besides, upon
receiving the update information from the data owner, the server needs to update
the index I and document collection C according to the received information. The
cloud server in the proposed scheme is considered as “honest-but-curious”, which
is employed by lots of works on secure cloud data search. Specifically, the cloud
server honestly and correctly executes instructions in the designated protocol.
Meanwhile, it is curious to infer and analyze received data, which helps it acquire
additional information. Depending on what information the cloud server knows,
we adopt the two threat models proposed byCao et al..
Known Ciphertext Model. In this model, the cloud server only knows the
encrypted document collection C, the searchable index tree I, and the search
trapdoor TD submitted by the authorized user. That is to say, the cloud server can
conductciphertext-only attack (COA) in this model.
Known Background Model. Compared with known ciphertext model, the cloud
server in this stronger model is equipped with more knowledge, such as the term

frequency (TF) statistics of the document collection. This statistical information
records how many documents are there for each term frequency of a specific
keyword in the whole document collection, as shown in Fig. 2, which could be
used as the keyword identity. Equipped with such statistical information, the cloud
server can conduct TF statistical attack to deduce or even identify certain keywords
through analyzing histogram and value range of the corresponding frequency
distributions.
Module 2
DesignGoals
To enable secure, efficient, accurate and dynamic multikeyword ranked search
over outsourced encrypted cloud data under the above models, our system has the
following design goals.
Dynamic: The proposed scheme is designed to provide not only multi-keyword
query and accurate result ranking, but also dynamic update on document
collections.
Search Efficiency: The scheme aims to achieve sublinear search efficiency by
exploring a special tree-based index and an efficient search algorithm.
Privacy-preserving: The scheme is designed to prevent the cloud server from
learning additional information about the document collection, the index tree, and
the query. The specific privacy requirements are summarized as follows,

1) Index Confidentiality and Query Confidentiality: The underlying plaintext
information, including keywords in the index and query, TF values of keywords
stored in the index, and IDF values of query keywords, should be protected from
cloud server;
2) Trapdoor Unlinkability: The cloud server should not be able to determine
whether two encrypted queries (trapdoors) are generated from the same search
request;
3) Keyword Privacy: The cloud server could not identify the specific keyword in
query, index or document collection by analyzing the statistical information like
term frequency. Note that our proposed scheme is not designed to protect access
pattern, i.e., the sequence of returned documents.
Module 3
SearchProcessofUDMRS Scheme
The search process of the UDMRS scheme is a recursive procedure upon the tree,
named as “Greedy Depthfirst Search (GDFS)” algorithm. We construct a result list
denoted as RList, whose element is defined as ⟨RScore; FID⟩. Here, the RScore is
the relevance score of the document fFID to the query, which is calculated
according to Formula (1). The RList stores the k accessed documents with the
largest relevance scores to the query. The elements of the list are ranked in
descending order according to the RScore, and will be updated timely during the
search process.

(2). RScore(Du;Q) – The function to calculate the relevance score for query vector
Q and index vector Du stored in node u.
kthscore – The smallest relevance score in current RList, which is initialized
as 0.
hchild – The child node of a tree node with higher relevance score.
lchild – The child node of a tree node with lower relevance score.
Since the possible largest relevance score of documents rooted by the node u can
be predicted, only a part of the nodes in the tree are accessed during the search
process.
Module 4
BDMRS Scheme
Based on the UDMRS scheme, we construct the basic dynamic multi-keyword
ranked search (BDMRS) scheme by using the secure kNN algorithm. The BDMRS
scheme is designed to achieve the goal of privacypreserving in the known
ciphertext model, and the four algorithms included are described as follows:
• SK ← Setup() Initially, the data owner generates the secret key set SK, including
1) a randomly generated m-bit vector S where m is equal to the cardinality of
dictionary, and 2) two (m×m) invertible matrices M1 and M2. Namely, SK =
{S;M1;M2}.
• I ← GenIndex(F; SK) First, the unencrypted index tree T is built on F by using T
← BuildIndexTree(F). Secondly, the data owner generates two random vectors

{Du′;Du′′} for index vectorDu in each node u, according to the secret vector S.
Specifically, if S[i] = 0, Du′[i] and Du′′[i] will be set equal to Du[i]; if S[i] = 1,
Du′[i] and Du′′[i] will be set as two random values whose sum equals to Du[i].
Finally, the encrypted index tree I is built where the node u stores two encrypted
index vectors Iu = {MT1 Du′;MT2Du′′}.
• TD ← GenTrapdoor(Wq; SK) With keyword set Wq, the unencrypted query
vector Q with length of m is generated. If wi ∈ Wq, Q[i] stores the normalized IDF
value of wi; else Q[i] is set to 0. Similarly, the query vector Q is split into two
random vectors Q′ and Q′′. The difference is that if S[i] = 0, Q′[i] and Q′′[i] are set
to two random values whose sum equals to Q[i]; else Q′[i] and Q′′[i] are set as the
same as Q[i]. Finally, the algorithm returns the trapdoor
TD = {M−11 Q′;M−12 Q′′}.
• RelevanceScore ← SRScore(Iu;TD) With the trapdoor TD, the cloud server
computes the relevance score of node u in the index tree I to the query. Note that
the relevance score calculated from encrypted vectors is equal to that from
unencrypted vectors.
Module 5
EDMRS Scheme
The BDMRS scheme can protect the Index Confidentiality and Query
Confidentiality in the known ciphertext model. However, the cloud server is able
to link the same search requests by tracking path of visited nodes. In addition, in

the known background model, it is possible for the cloud server to identify a
keyword as the normalized TF distribution of the keyword can be exactly obtained
from the final calculated relevance scores. The primary cause is that the relevance
score calculated from Iu and TD is exactly equal to that from Du and Q. A heuristic
method to further improve the security is to break such exact equality. Thus, we
can introduce some tunable randomness to disturb the relevance score calculation.
In addition, to suit different users’ preferences for higher accurate ranked results or
better protected keyword privacy, the randomness are set adjustable.
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
In this paper, a secure, efficient and dynamic search scheme is proposed, which
supports not only the accurate multi-keyword ranked search but also the dynamic
deletion and insertion of documents. We construct a special keyword balanced
binary tree as the index, and propose a “Greedy Depth-first Search” algorithm to
obtain better efficiency than linear search. In addition, the parallel search process
can be carried out to further reduce the time cost. The security of the scheme is
protected against two threat models by using the secure kNN algorithm.
Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed scheme. There are
still many challenge problems in symmetric SE schemes. In the proposed scheme,
the data owner is responsible for generating updating information and sending
them to the cloud server. Thus, the data owner needs to store the unencrypted
index tree and the information that are necessary to recalculate the IDF values.
Such an active data owner may not be very suitable for the cloud computing
model. It could be a meaningful but difficult future work to design a dynamic

searchable encryption scheme whose updating operation can be completed by
cloud server only, meanwhile reserving the ability to support multi-keyword
ranked search. In addition, as the most of works about searchable encryption, our
scheme mainly considers the challenge from the cloud server. Actually, there are
many secure challenges in a multi-user scheme. Firstly, all the users usually keep
the same secure key for trapdoor generation in a symmetric SE scheme. In this
case, the revocation of the user is big challenge. If it is needed to revoke a user in
this scheme, we need to rebuild the index and distribute the new secure keys to all
the authorized users. Secondly, symmetric SE schemes usually assume that all the
data users are trustworthy. It is not practical and a dishonest data user will lead to
many secure problems. For example, a dishonest data user may search the
documents and distribute the decrypted documents to the unauthorized ones. Even
more, a dishonest data user may distribute his/her secure keys to the unauthorized
ones. In the future works, we will try to improve the SE scheme to handle these
challenge problems.
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