Preferred Name
J. Ben Huson
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Date of Graduation
Spring 2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Department of Computer Science
Advisor(s)
Xunhua Wang
Abstract
Traditional encryption schemes such as AES and RSA aim to achieve the highest level of security, often indistinguishable security under the adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack. Ciphertexts generated by such encryption schemes do not leak useful information. As a result, such ciphertexts do not support efficient searchability nor range queries.
Order-preserving encryption is a relatively new encryption paradigm that allows for efficient queries on ciphertexts. In order-preserving encryption, the data-encrypting key is a long-term symmetric key that needs to stay online for insertion, query and deletion operations, making it an attractive target for attacks.
In this thesis, an intrusion-tolerant order-preserving encryption system was developed to support range queries on encrypted data. Within this system, the long-term symmetric key is shared among multiple (say n) servers and is never reconstructed in full, at any single point. An adversary who has compromised less than a threshold number (say t : t
Recommended Citation
Huson, John, "Intrusion-tolerant Order-preserving Encryption" (2019). Masters Theses, 2010-2019. 623.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/623
