Access Pattern disclosure on Searchable Encryption: Ramification, Attack and Mitigation
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Date: 6 Feb 2012
Document Type: Briefing Papers
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Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2012
Abstract:
In this paper, we present an attack model on searchable encryption protocols that exploits access pattern leakage to disclose significant amount of confidential information. Furthermore, we propose a simple noise addition based mitigation technique that can render such an inference attack significantly more difficult. Finally, we empirically justify our claim by presenting our experimental results on a real world dataset.