We initiate the cryptographic study of order-preserving symmetric encryption (OPE), a primitive suggested in the database community by Agrawal et al. (SIGMOD ’04) for allowing efficient range queries on encrypted data. Interestingly, we first show that a straightforward relaxation of standard security notions for encryption such as indistinguishability against chosen-plaintext attack (IND-CPA) ...

Order preserving encryption (OPE) is a kind of encryption designed to support searches on ciphertexts. OPE encrypts plaintexts to ciphertexts with the same order, making it possible to efficiently compare ciphertexts without decryption. Because of its efficiency, OPE has been used in systems aimed at practical use. However, even though many OPE schemes have been proposed, all suffer from securi...

In an order-preserving encryption scheme, the encryption algorithm produces ciphertexts that preserve the order of their plaintexts. Order-preserving encryption schemes have been studied intensely in the last decade, and yet not much is known about the security of these schemes. Very recently, Boneh et al. (Eurocrypt 2015) introduced a generalization of order-preserving encryption, called order...

In this paper we study order-preserving encryption (OPE), a primitive in the database community for allowing efficient range queries on ecrypted data. OPE was suggested by Agrawal et al [1], and was throughly studied by Boldyreva et al [2]. In this paper we present a practical OPE scheme, which is a key-controlled algorithm, based on simple computation. A primary analysis shows that our algorit...

The first type of specialized encryption scheme that can be used in secure outsourced storage we will look at is property-preserving encryption. This is encryption where some desired property of the plaintexts is intentionally leaked by the ciphertexts. The two main examples we will study are deterministic encryption, which preserves the equality property, and order preserving encryption, which...

Order-preserving encryption allows encrypting data, while still enabling efficient range queries on the encrypted data. Moreover, it does not require any change to the database management system, because comparison operates on ciphertexts as on plaintexts. This makes order-preserving encryption schemes very suitable for data outsourcing in cloud computing scenarios. However, all order-preservin...

While cloud computing is growing at a remarkable speed, privacy issues are far from being solved. One way to diminish privacy concerns is to store data on the cloud in encrypted form. However, encryption often hinders useful computation cloud services. A theoretical approach is to employ the so-called fully homomorphic encryption, yet the overhead is so high that it is not considered a viable s...

Order-preserving encryption (OPE) preserves the order of data in their ciphertexts and, hence, allows range search on the encrypted data without needing to decrypt them. Security analysis of OPE schemes is very important because OPE is not a perfect encryption algorithm (the ciphertexts leak the ordering information of the plaintexts). Most of the existing security analysis for the OPE schemes ...