Visible to the public Search Me in the Dark: Privacy-preserving Boolean Range Query over Encrypted Spatial Data

TitleSearch Me in the Dark: Privacy-preserving Boolean Range Query over Encrypted Spatial Data
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsWang, Xiangyu, Ma, Jianfeng, Liu, Ximeng, Deng, Robert H., Miao, Yinbin, Zhu, Dan, Ma, Zhuoran
Conference NameIEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
KeywordsBoolean range queries, data privacy, encrypted spatial data, Encryption, Indexes, Privacy-preserving, Reflective binary codes, Spatial databases
AbstractWith the increasing popularity of geo-positioning technologies and mobile Internet, spatial keyword data services have attracted growing interest from both the industrial and academic communities in recent years. Meanwhile, a massive amount of data is increasingly being outsourced to cloud in the encrypted form for enjoying the advantages of cloud computing while without compromising data privacy. Most existing works primarily focus on the privacy-preserving schemes for either spatial or keyword queries, and they cannot be directly applied to solve the spatial keyword query problem over encrypted data. In this paper, we study the challenging problem of Privacy-preserving Boolean Range Query (PBRQ) over encrypted spatial databases. In particular, we propose two novel PBRQ schemes. Firstly, we present a scheme with linear search complexity based on the space-filling curve code and Symmetric-key Hidden Vector Encryption (SHVE). Then, we use tree structures to achieve faster-than-linear search complexity. Thorough security analysis shows that data security and query privacy can be guaranteed during the query process. Experimental results using real-world datasets show that the proposed schemes are efficient and feasible for practical applications, which is at least x70 faster than existing techniques in the literature.
NotesISSN: 2641-9874
DOI10.1109/INFOCOM41043.2020.9155505
Citation Keywang_search_2020