With the development of cloud computing, privacy security issues have become increasingly
prominent, which is of concern to industry and academia. We review the research progress …

Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) when deployed in the cloud allows one to query
encrypted data without the risk of data leakage. Despite the widespread interest, existing …

The recently proposed file-injection type attacks are highlighting the importance of forward
security in dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE). Forward security enables to …

Outsourcing medical data and their search services to a third party cloud have been a
popular trend for many medical practices, because using healthcare cloud services can help …

Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) has been widely recognized as a
promising technique to delegate update and search queries over an outsourced database to …

Public key Encryption with Keyword Search (PEKS) aims in mitigating the impacts of data
privacy versus utilization dilemma by allowing any user in the system to send encrypted files …

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have emerged as an essential technology to enable
dynamic and opportunistic spectrum access which aims to exploit underutilized licensed …

Searchable encryption enables users to enjoy search services while protecting the security
and privacy of their outsourced data. Blockchain-enabled searchable encryption delivers the …

Searchable encryption has received a significant attention from the research community with
various constructions being proposed, each achieving asymptotically optimal complexity for …

We explore the field of searchable encryption (SE) and present a comprehensive survey of
relevant literature. Since the existing survey articles are primarily written for the security …