BlockOPE: Efficient Order-Preserving Encryption for Permissioned Blockchain

Zhihao Chen, Qingqing Li, Xiaodong Qi, Zhao Zhang, Cheqing Jin, Aoying Zhou

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Abstract

Permissioned blockchain is increasingly being used as a collaborative platform for sharing data. However, current blockchain-based data sharing is unable to balance privacy pro-tection and query functionality, limiting its application scenarios. Order-preserving encryption/encoding (OPE) allows encrypting data to prevent privacy leakage while still supporting efficient order-oriented queries on ciphertexts. But existing OPE schemes are constrained by limited use cases and inherent performance limitations that make them difficult to be adopted by permissioned blockchain where performance is a major concern. In this paper, we present BlockOPE, an efficient OPE scheme designed around the first study integrating OPE into blockchain systems. By supporting parallel processing with a conflict-reducing design, we argue that BlockOPE is feasible for permissioned blockchain, achieving orders-of-magnitude performance improvement while preserving the ideal OPE security. Additionally, we improve query processing by leveraging an adaptive lightweight client cache. Extensive experiment results and theoretical analysis illustrate the practicability of our approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2022
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1245-1258
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781665408837
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2022 - Virtual, Online, Malaysia
Duration: 9 May 202212 May 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1084-4627
ISSN (Electronic)2375-0286

Conference

Conference38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2022
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityVirtual, Online
Period9/05/2212/05/22

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Order-Preserving Encryption
  • Privacy

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