Certificateless Searchable Encryption Scheme in Multi-User Environment

Abstract

Searchable encryption technology enables users to access data that has been made publicly encrypted without divulging the original content. The majority of the currently available multi-user certificateless searchable encryption technologies are based on identity-based public key encryption as well as conventional public key cryptosystems. Thus, they are challenged to adapt to the security needs of today’s large-scale network computing environment. As a result, issues such as excessive overhead, poor security, and the inability to handle large-scale applications are unavoidable. In order to address the aforementioned issues, this paper uses the method of combining public key authentication encryption and searchable encryption to propose a certificateless searchable encryption scheme in multi-user circumstances. The stochastic prediction model demonstrates that the scheme can effectively fend off keyword guessing attacks. The proposed algorithm not only performs well in terms of computation but also significantly reduces the amount of computation in simulations.