Informed consent is the result of tumultuous events in both the clinical and research arenas
over the last 100 years. Throughout this time, the notion of informed consent has shifted …

Online applications are vulnerable to theft of sensitive information because adversaries can
exploit software bugs to gain access to private data, and because curious or malicious …

Data outsourcing or database as a service is a new paradigm for data management in which
a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data …

Many encrypted database (EDB) systems have been proposed in the last few years as cloud
computing has grown in popularity and data breaches have increased. The state-of-the-art …

In cloud computing, clients usually outsource their data to the cloud storage servers to
reduce the management costs. While those data may contain sensitive personal information …

Searchable encryption schemes allow users to perform keyword based searches on an
encrypted database. Almost all existing such schemes only consider the scenario where a …

Current security mechanisms are not suitable for organisations that outsource their data
management to untrusted servers. Encrypting and decrypting sensitive data at the client side …

Cloud computing promises users massive scale outsourced data storage services with much
lower costs than traditional methods. However, privacy concerns compel sensitive data to be …

Enterprises outsourcing their databases to the cloud and authorizing multiple users for
access represents a typical use scenario of cloud storage services. In such a case of …

To enjoy the advantages of cloud service while preserving security and privacy, huge data
are increasingly outsourced to cloud in encrypted form. Unfortunately, most conventional …