Structured Encryption with Non-interactive Updates and Parallel Traversal

Abstract

Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) encrypts data in such a way that they can be searched efficiently. Some recent SSE schemes allow modification of data, yet they may incur storage overhead to support parallelism in searching, or additional computation to minimize the potential leakage incurred by the update, both penalize the performance. Moreover, most of them consider only keyword search and not applicable to arbitrary structured data. In this work, we propose the first parallel and dynamic symmetric-key structured encryption, which supports query of encrypted data structure. Our scheme leverages the rather simple randomized binary search tree to achieve non-interactive queries and updates.