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Order Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data
Summary: Order-preserving encryption for numeric data enables direct comparisons on ciphertext with sound, complete query results. Updates require no re-encryption; standard indexes work on encrypted tables, and security holds against domain-ignorant attackers.
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Paper ID
hd3f0dd26363c5f46
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00021327947
Overall Rank
311 | 97.92%
DOI
10.1145/1007568.1007632
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{agrawal_sigmod04,
title = {{Order Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data}},
author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Kiernan, Jerry and Srikant, Ramakrishnan and Xu, Yirong},
series = {{SIGMOD} '04},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1007568.1007632},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1007568.1007632},
year = {2004}
}
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