EliMFS: Achieving Efficient, Leakage-Resilient, and Multi-Keyword Fuzzy Search on Encrypted Cloud Data

Motivated by privacy preservation requirements for outsourced data, keyword searches over encrypted cloud data have become a hot topic. Compared to single-keyword exact searches, multi-keyword fuzzy search schemes attract more attention because of their improvements in search accuracy, typo tolerance, and user experience in general. However, existing multi-keyword fuzzy search solutions are not sufficiently efficient when the file set in the cloud is large. To address this, we propose an Efficient Leakage-resilient Multi-keyword Fuzzy Search (EliMFS) framework over encrypted cloud data. In this framework, a novel two-stage index structure is exploited to ensure that search time is independent of file set size. The multi-keyword fuzzy search function is achieved through a delicate design based on the Gram Counting Order, the Bloom filter, and the Locality-Sensitive Hashing. Furthermore, considering the leakages caused by the two-stage index structure, we propose two specific schemes to resist these potential attacks in different threat models. Extensive analysis and experiments show that our schemes are highly efficient and leakage-resilient.