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Paper: Structured Encryption and Dynamic Leakage Suppression

Authors: Marilyn George , Brown University Seny Kamara , Brown University Tarik Moataz , Aroki Systems DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77883-5_13 (login may be required) Search ePrint Search Google Slides EUROCRYPT 2021 Structured encryption (STE) schemes encrypt data structures in such a way that they can be privately queried. Special cases ofSTE include searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) and graph encryption. Like all sub-linear encrypted search solutions, STE leaks information about queries against persistent adversaries. To address this, a line of work on leakage suppression was recently initiated that focuses on techniques to mitigate or completely remove the leakage of STE schemes (Kamara et al. CRYPTO’18 and Kamara and Moataz, Eurocrypt ’19). A notable example is the cache-based compiler which, when combined with the rebuild compiler, transforms any dynamic STE scheme that leaks the query equality into a new scheme that does not. Unfortunately, this compiler can only produce static schemes and it was left as an open problem to design a compiler that could yield dynamic constructions. In this work, we propose a dynamic variant of the cache-based compiler. Our compiler can transform any volume-hiding semi-dynamic or mutable STE scheme that leaks the query equality pattern into into a new fully-dynamic construction that does not. Using this compiler, we design three new fully-dynamic STE schemes that are “almost” and fully zero-leakage which, under natural assumptions about the data and query distributions, are asymptotically more efficient than using black-box ORAM simulation. These are the first constructions of their kind.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{eurocrypt-2021-30936,
title={Structured Encryption and Dynamic Leakage Suppression},
publisher={Springer-Verlag},
doi={10.1007/978-3-030-77883-5_13},
author={Marilyn George and Seny Kamara and Tarik Moataz},
year=2021
}