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Authenticating the Query Results of Text Search Engines
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment: VLDB ‘08, August 24-30, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Hwee Hwa PANG, Singapore Management University
  • Kyriakos MOURATIDIS, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
8-2008
Abstract

The number of successful attacks on the Internet shows that it is very difficult to guarantee the security of online search engines. A breached server that is not detected in time may return incorrect results to the users. To prevent that, we introduce a methodology for generating an integrity proof for each search result. Our solution is targeted at search engines that perform similarity-based document retrieval, and utilize an inverted list implementation (as most search engines do). We formulate the properties that define a correct result, map the task of processing a text search query to adaptations of existing threshold-based algorithms, and devise an authentication scheme for checking the validity of a result. Finally, we confirm the efficiency and practicality of our solution through an empirical evaluation with real documents and benchmark queries.

Keywords
  • Authentication scheme,
  • Document Retrieval,
  • Empirical evaluations,
  • Inverted list,
  • Query results,
  • Search results,
  • Text search
Identifier
10.1145/1453856.1453875
Publisher
VLDB Endowment
City or Country
New York
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453875
Citation Information
Hwee Hwa PANG and Kyriakos MOURATIDIS. "Authenticating the Query Results of Text Search Engines" Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment: VLDB ‘08, August 24-30, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand Vol. 1 Iss. 1 (2008) p. 126 - 137 ISSN: 2150-8097
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kyriakos_mouratidis/20/