Efficient and generalized geometric range search on encrypted spatial data in the cloud

With cloud services, users can easily host their data in the cloud and retrieve the part needed by search. Searchable encryption is proposed to conduct such process in a privacy-preserving way, which allows a cloud server to perform search over the encrypted data in the cloud according to the search token submitted by the user. However, existing works mainly focus on textual data and merely take numerical spatial data into account. Especially,...