Research Article

Efficient Searchable Symmetric Encryption Supporting Dynamic Multikeyword Ranked Search

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An example of the vectors generation of the node u. (a) Method M1: u is a leaf node, W is a keyword set for the file which u stores, and is a vector generated by adopting the keyword conversion method mentioned in Section 2.5. (b) Method M2: u is an internal node, and , , and are the vectors of its children.
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