Questions tagged [searchable-encryption]

Searchable encryption is a subfield of cryptography which constructs and analyzes cryptosystems that preserve the ability to 'search' over encrypted data, for some definition of 'search'.

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Why use indexing for searchable encryption?

Searchable encryption can be separated into sequential scan and indexing. Besides increasing search speed, why do we use indexing in searchable encryption? As an end-user, we do not usually make a keyword list of our document. So, if we don't build…
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Question related to Searchable Encryption

What are the future prospects of Searchable Encryption? Are industry based labs interested in Searchable Encryption? Will doing a PhD in Searchable Encryption help my join industry based research labs? How active is the field of Searchable…
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Problem in Identifying relevant documents to evaluate Precision in Information Retrieval (IR) Systems

In searching engines, especially for ranked search approaches, How to evaluate the results returned by IR Systems . The precision is evaluated by the below equation: (Number of relevant documents in retrieved documents)/(Number of retrieved…
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