• May.

• 08

• 2026

Searchable Encryption: Foundations, Privacy Challenges, and Emerging Directions

2026-05-08T18:00:00.000Z, 2026-05-08T18:00:00.000Z – 2026-05-08T19:00:00.000Z
Virtual

Hosted by Southern Alberta Section Chapter, C16
Co-hosted by Northern Canada Section Jt Chapter,C16/COM19; Vancouver Section Jt. Chapter, C16/CIS11; Kingston Section Chapter, C16/COM19; Newfoundland Labrador Sect Chap, C16/COM19/CAS04; Kitchener-Waterloo Section Chapter, C16; South Saskatchewan Section Chapter, C16; Quebec Section Chapter, C16; Buenaventura Section Chapter,C16; North Saskatchewan Section Chapter, C16; San Fernando Valley Section Jt. Chapter, C16/COM19; Montreal Section Jt. Chapter,C16/CIS11;

Please join us on May 8 for an insightful online presentation on advancements in searchable encryption, presented by Dr. Khosro Salmani. 

 

Summary: Searchable encryption has emerged as a key cryptographic technology for enabling efficient search over encrypted data while preserving confidentiality in untrusted environments. In this talk, I will introduce the fundamental concepts of searchable encryption methodologies and discuss the privacy challenges that have shaped their evolution. The presentation will review the historical development of searchable encryption, highlighting how early designs addressed basic functionality and how subsequent approaches responded to increasingly sophisticated privacy threats, such as access-pattern and leakage attacks. I will then present a structured classification of searchable encryption methodologies, offering a conceptual framework that helps clarify existing designs and their privacy trade-offs. This classification aims to strengthen the foundation for reasoning about privacy guarantees and to support the design of more robust and practical schemes. The talk will also touch on emerging directions, including usability considerations and the interaction between searchable encryption and modern data-driven systems. The goal of this talk is to provide an accessible introduction to searchable encryption and its privacy challenges, while motivating researchers and practitioners to further explore open problems and contribute to advancing privacy-preserving search technologies.

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