Affiliations: [a] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India
| [b] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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Corresponding author. Rohit Handa, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: With the advancement of cloud computing, data-owners prefer to outsource their confidential data to cloud as it provides storage facility at reduced administration and maintenance cost. When these confidential documents leave the user’s premises, security of the data becomes a prime concern, as cloud service provider (CSP) and end users are in different trust domains. To provide data privacy, it is preferred that the end user should encrypt the data before outsourcing to the cloud. Encryption provides security but makes data utilization a challenging task, i.e., searching encrypted documents is difficult. Various schemes exist in the literature but they are either restricted to single keyword search or are inefficient in terms of search time required. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach for secure information retrieval using the concept of bucketization. This reduces the average number of comparisons per query to sub-linear. Experimental analysis on Reuters-21578 data-set demonstrates that the proposed scheme provides a recall of 100% and precision of 98.45% while decreasing the search time by 98.85% using bucketization.
