Research Article

Time-Enabled and Verifiable Secure Search for Blockchain-Empowered Electronic Health Record Sharing in IoT

Table 1

Notation table.

Description

Keywords extracted from EHR
The file containing the keyword
All files containing the keyword
Keyword generation time and trapdoor authorization time
State ciphertext and set of state ciphertext
Symmetric key ciphertext
EHR ciphertext
Proof for the verification of the search result
The search trapdoor of
Searched ciphertext and set of searched ciphertext
a pseudorandom permutation and the inverse permutation
An empty map, map state, map key, and a counter
The version information about the current encrypted file
An encrypted index containing the keyword