Research Article

Database Padding for Dynamic Symmetric Searchable Encryption

Table 1

Notation.

ParameterNotation

The security parameter
A secure
The length of
The number of files that the database can hold
Keyword space
The -th real file
The -th bogus file
A database
A padding database
Encrypted database (including and )
The current search token for a keyword
A map that stores and the times of update operations on keywords in the keyword space
The bit string which used to indicate whether the real file and the bogus file exist
The encrypted
Sum of the
The onetime secret key
Sum of