Title: Pattern matching algorithms for encrypted non-static texts

Authors: Nan Li; Dequan Chen; Meng Zhang

Addresses: College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China ' College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China ' College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Abstract: We consider the problem of pattern matching on encrypted texts. In this problem, users transfer the encrypted text and patterns to a third party, and the third party searches for all the occurrences of the patterns in the encrypted text; the matching results are encrypted such that only some specified users can read. The third party cannot access all the plain texts including the pattern, the text, and the matching result. In our problem, the texts and patterns are not static, and the pre-processing on the text is the encryption, not including building the index and others; any pre-processing on the patterns is allowed. We present pattern matching algorithms for ciphertexts of the fully homomorphic encryption. The time for decrypting the matching results is shorter than that of decrypting-then-matching of the ciphertext. We implement the pattern matching algorithms using HElib library. Several experiments are conducted to test the performance of the algorithm.

Keywords: pattern matching; fully homomorphic encryption; cryptography; non-static texts; encrypted texts; ciphertexts; decryption.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2017.083054

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2017 Vol.12 No.1, pp.90 - 95

Received: 21 Nov 2016
Accepted: 08 Dec 2016

Published online: 19 Mar 2017 *

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