Research Article

A Lightweight Blockchain-based Public-Key Authenticated Encryption with Multi-Keyword Search for Cloud Computing

Table 1

Summary of notations.

SymbolDescription

The cyclic group of prime order
The generator of group
Hash functions
Participant’s public and private keys
The keywords set
The files set
The number of values in the range
The number of the hash functions
Bloom filter
L-dimensional vector
The hash function family with key
A set of file identifiers containing keyword
Keyword ciphertext set
Hash check list of ciphertext
Search result set
Vector inner product
The euclidean norm of an -vector