Project Title: Fast Phrase Search for Encrypted Cloud Storage

Abstract—Cloud computing has generated much interest in the research community in recent
years for its many advantages, but has also raise security and privacy concerns. The storage and
access of confidential documents have been identified as one of the central problems in the area.
In particular, many researchers investigated solutions to search over encrypted documents stored
on remote cloud servers. While many schemes have been proposed to perform conjunctive
keyword search, less attention has been noted on more specialized searching techniques. In this
paper, we present a phrase search technique based on Bloom filters that is significantly faster
than existing solutions, with similar or better storage and communication cost. Our technique
uses a series of n-gram filters to support the functionality. The scheme exhibits a trade-off
between storage and false positive rate, and is adaptable to defend against inclusion-relation
attacks. A design approach based on an application’s target false positive rate is also described.

Keywords—Conjunctive keyword search, Phrase search, Privacy, Security, Encryption

Practical Privacy-Preserving Content-Based Retrieval in Cloud Image Repositories

Abstract:
Storage requirements for visual data have been increasing in recent years, following the
emergence of many highly interactive multimedia services and applications for mobile devices in
both personal and corporate scenarios. This has been a key driving factor for the adoption of
cloud-based data outsourcing solutions. However, outsourcing data storage to the Cloud also
leads to new security challenges that must be carefully addressed, especially regarding privacy.
In this paper we propose a secure framework for outsourced privacy-preserving storage and
retrieval in large shared image repositories. Our proposal is based on IES-CBIR, a novel Image
Encryption Scheme that exhibits Content-Based Image Retrieval properties. The framework
enables both encrypted storage and searching using Content-Based Image Retrieval queries
while preserving privacy against honest-but-curious cloud administrators. We have built a
prototype of the proposed framework, formally analyzed and proven its security properties, and
experimentally evaluated its performance and retrieval precision. Our results show that IES-
CBIR is provably secure, allows more efficient operations than existing proposals, both in terms
of time and space complexity, and paves the way for new practical application scenarios.

Index Terms—Data and Computation Outsourcing; Encrypted Data Processing; Searchable

Encryption; Content-Based Image

Retrieva

Fast Phrase Search for Encrypted Cloud Storage

Practical Privacy-Preserving Content-Based Retrieval in Cloud Image Repositories

Project Title: Privacy-Preserving Content-Based image retrieval in
cloud storage
Abstract
Cloud computing has generated much interest in the research community in recent years
for its many advantages, but has also raise security and privacy concerns. The storage and access
of confidential documents have been identified as one of the central problems in the area. In
particular, many researchers investigated solutions to search over encrypted documents stored on
remote cloud servers. While many schemes have been proposed to perform conjunctive keyword
search, less attention has been noted on more specialized searching techniques. Storage
requirements for visual data have been increasing in recent years, following the emergence of
many highly interactive multimedia services and applications for mobile devices in both personal
and corporate scenarios. This has been a key driving factor for the adoption of cloud-based data
outsourcing solutions. However, outsourcing data storage to the Cloud also leads to new security
challenges that must be carefully addressed, especially regarding privacy.

In this paper, it presents a phrase search technique based on Bloom filters that is
significantly faster than existing solutions, with similar or better storage and communication
cost. Our technique uses a series of n-gram filters to support the functionality. The scheme
exhibits a trade-off between storage and false positive rate, and is adaptable to defend against
inclusion-relation attacks. A design approach based on an application’s target false positive rate
is also described. Further it proposes a secure framework for outsourced privacy-preserving
storage and retrieval in large shared image repositories. Our proposal is based on IES-CBIR, a
novel Image Encryption Scheme that exhibits Content-Based Image Retrieval properties. The
framework enables both encrypted storage and searching using Content-Based Image Retrieval
queries while preserving privacy against honest-but-curious cloud administrators. We have built
a prototype of the proposed framework, formally analyzed and proven its security properties, and
experimentally evaluated its performance and retrieval precision. Our results show that IES-
CBIR is provably secure, allows more efficient operations than existing proposals, both in terms
of time and space complexity, and paves the way for new practical application scenarios.

Keywords—Phrase search; Privacy; Security; Data and Computation Outsourcing; Encrypted

Data Processing; Content-Based Image

Student’s Name

G Soumya
P Mohitha
P Kavya