Research Article

Secure Symmetric Keyword Search with Keyword Privacy for Cloud Storage Services

Table 5

Comparison of security and performance between our scheme and the others.

SchemeFunctionalitiesPerformances
CTIndKeywordIndClassSize (CT)Size (trap)Comp (test)

Shen et al. [20]SatisfiedSatisfiedPredicate +
Blundo et al. [12]SatisfiedSatisfiedPredicate2 + 2e +
Proposed schemeSatisfiedSatisfiedSearchable

CTInd: ciphertext indistinguishability; KeywordInd: keyword indistinguishability; Size (CT): size of PEKS (dPEKS) ciphertext; Size (trap): size of trapdoor (dTrapdoor); Comp (test): computation cost of test (dTest); : element in ; : pairings; : exponentials; : decryption corresponding to .