Search on Encrypted Data

The proliferation of a new breed of data management applications that store and process data at remote locations has led to the emergence of search over encrypted data as an important research problem. In a typical setting of the problem, data is stored at the remote location in an encrypted form. A query generated at the clientside is transformed into a representation such that it can be evaluated directly on encrypted data at the remote location. The results might be processed by the client after decryption to determine the final answers.