Hybrid cloud approach for block-level deduplication and searchable encryption in large universe

Ciphertext-policy attribute-based searchable encryption (CP-ABSE) can achieve fine-grained access control for data sharing and retrieval, and secure deduplication can save storage space by eliminating duplicate copies. However, there are seldom schemes supporting both searchable encryption and secure deduplication. In this paper, a large universe CP-ABSE scheme supporting secure block-level deduplication are proposed under a hybrid cloud mechanism. In the proposed scheme, after the ciphertext is inserted into bloom filter tree (BFT), private cloud can perform fine-grained deduplication efficiently by matching tags, and public cloud can search efficiently using homomorphic searchable method and keywords matching. Finally, the proposed scheme can achieve privacy under chosen distribution attacks block-level (PRV-CDA-B) secure deduplication and match-concealing (MC) searchable security. Compared with existing schemes, the proposed scheme has the advantage in supporting fine-grained access control, block-level deduplication and efficient search, simultaneously.