The statistical nature of leakage in SSE schemes and its role in passive attacks

ePrint Report: The statistical nature of leakage in SSE schemes and its role in passive attacks

Marc Damie, Jean-Benoist Leger, Florian Hahn, Andreas Peter

Encrypted search schemes have been proposed to address growing privacy concerns. However, several leakage-abuse attacks have highlighted the shortcomings of these schemes. The literature remains vague about the consequences of these attacks for real-world applications: are these attacks dangerous in practice? Is it safe to use these schemes? Do we even need countermeasures?


This paper introduces …

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