TL;DR
X-Search leverages Intel SGX to provide a more private, efficient, and robust web search solution that outperforms existing methods like Tor and PEAS in privacy guarantees and performance.
Contribution
The paper introduces X-Search, a novel SGX-based private web search mechanism that enhances privacy and efficiency over existing solutions.
Findings
X-Search offers stronger privacy guarantees than Tor and PEAS.
It better resists state-of-the-art re-identification attacks.
X-Search outperforms competitors in latency and throughput.
Abstract
The exploitation of user search queries by search engines is at the heart of their economic model. As consequence, offering private Web search functionalities is essential to the users who care about their privacy. Nowadays, there exists no satisfactory approach to enable users to access search engines in a privacy-preserving way. Existing solutions are either too costly due to the heavy use of cryptographic mechanisms (e.g., private information retrieval protocols), subject to attacks (e.g., Tor, TrackMeNot, GooPIR) or rely on weak adversarial models (e.g., PEAS). This paper introduces X-Search , a novel private Web search mechanism building on the disruptive Software Guard Extensions (SGX) proposed by Intel. We compare X-Search to its closest competitors, Tor and PEAS, using a dataset of real web search queries. Our evaluation shows that: (1) X-Search offers stronger privacy…
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