Public-key Authenticated Encryption with Keyword Search (PAEKS) is a cryptographic primitive that can resist inside keyword guessing attack (KGA). However, most of the previously proposed PAEKS frameworks suffered from certificate management problem and key escrow problem. Inspired by the ideas of certificate-based cryptography, we propose a secure-channel free certificateless searchable public key authenticated encryption with keyword search (SCF-CLPAEKS) scheme which sloves the key escrow problem in identity-based cryptosystems and the cumbersome certificate problem in conventional public key cryptosystems. Our scheme achieves security against keyword guessing attacks are performed by both inside and outside adversaries. Moreover, our scheme satisfies ciphertext indistinguishability (CI), trapdoor indistinguishability (TI), and designated testability simultaneously. The comparisons indicate that our SCF-CLPAEKS scheme enjoys a better performance compared with related schemes.
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Cloud storage becomes the priority for storing and sharing data for enterprise users. Encrypting prior to uploading data to the cloud is the best way to protect business secrets, however, it hinders the convenient operations on plaintexts, such as searching over the cloud data. In addition, employees in an enterprise have multiple layer structures and a higher layer employee should have the privilege to monitor the lower layer employees' data to check if these users violate the regulation without letting the employees be aware of. Public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) is a well-known cryptographic primitive suitable for secure cloud storage, which supports keyword search without decryption in public key encryption settings. Unfortunately, no existing PEKS scheme supports the monitoring function without authorization from the sender. To address this issue, we propose a variant of PEKS named Hierarchical Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search (HPEKS) and provide a semi