Hobin Jang, Ji Young Chun, Ik Rae Jeong, Geontae Noh, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 85-96, Oct. 2023
10.7472/jksii.2023.24.5.85, Full Text:  HTML
Keywords: earchable Encryption, Top-k Search, Privacy Preserving, Blockchain as a Service, Smart Contract

Abstract

With advance of cloud computing technology, Blockchain as a Service of Cloud Service Provider has been utilized in various areas such as e-Commerce and financial companies to manage customer history and distribution history. However, if users’ search history, purchase history, etc. are to be utilized in a BaaS in areas such as recommendation algorithms and search engine development, the users’ search queries will be exposed to the company operating the BaaS, and privacy issues will be occured. Z. Guan et al. ensure the unlinkability between users’ search query and search result using searchable encryption, and based on the inner product similarity, they select Top-k results that are highly relevant to the users’ search query. However, there is a problem that the Top-k results selection may be not possible due to ties of inner product similarity, and BaaS over cloud is not considered. Therefore, this paper solve the problem of Z. Guan et al. using cosine similarity, so we improve accuracy of search result. And based on this, we design a BaaS with secure Top-k search that improved accuracy. Furthermore, we design a smart contracts that preserve privacy of users’ search and obtain Top-k search results that are highly relevant to the users’ search.

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