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When one enterprise acquires another, the electronic data of the acquired enterprise will be transferred to the acquiring enterprise. In particular, if the data system of acquired enterprise contains a searchable encryption mechanism, the corresponding searchability will also be transferred. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Searchable Encryption with Ownership Transfer (SEOT), and propose a secure SEOT scheme. Based on the new structure of polling pool, our proposed searchable encryption scheme not only achieves efficient transfer of outsourced data, but also implements secure transfer of data searchability. Moreover, we optimize the storage cost for user to a desirable value. We prove our scheme can achieve the secure characteristics, then carry out the performance evaluation and experiments. The results demonstrate that our scheme is superior in efficiency and practicability.
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We are very grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their time and valuable comments. This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61932010) and Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City (No. 201707010320).
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Jianwei Li is working towards the PhD degree in information security at Jinan University, China. His research interests include big data, secure cloud computing, and cryptography.
Xaioming Wang is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Jinan University, China. Her research interests include secure and privacy in distributed systems, and secure access control.
Qingqing Gan received the BS degree in software engineering from Jinan University, China. She is currently working as a lecturer in the Department of Cyber Security, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. Her research interests include information security and privacy preserving on cloud computing.
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Li, J., Wang, X. & Gan, Q. SEOT: Secure dynamic searchable encryption with outsourced ownership transfer. Front. Comput. Sci. 17, 175812 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-022-2017-5
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