As cloud storage has been widely adopted in various applications, how to protect data
privacy while allowing efficient data search and retrieval in a distributed environment …

With the growth of the urban population, the rapid development of smart cities has become
the focus of urban regional development. Smart medical care is an indispensable part of …

Public-key encryption with equality test (PKEET) provides cloud servers with an effective
way to check the equality of outsourced encrypted data without decryption. This enables …

Internet of Things (IoT) devices and systems are becoming increasingly commonplace, and
as such systems scale up, so do the computational and storage requirements. Hence, one …

In the cloud, uploading encrypted data is the most effective way to ensure that the data are
not leaked. However, data access control is still an open problem in cloud storage systems …

Public key encryption with equality test (PKEET) allows a tester to know whether ciphertexts
are the encryptions of a same message or not by using the trapdoors issued from their …

Searchable encryption schemes allow documents' owners to store their encrypted
documents on servers, search for the desired keyword and then download only the desired …

Cloud computing is a technology which has enabled many organizations to outsource their
data in an encrypted form to improve processing times. The public Internet was not initially …

The modular exponentiation has been proved better in terms of computational efficiency as
compared to bilinear pairing. Therefore, discrete logarithm, a concept of modular …

We propose a new secure equality testing (SET) protocol, namely SET-OT, for two-party
setting by using a recently introduced Private Set Membership Protocol (PSM) based on …