On: MongoDB Releases Queryable Encryption Preview

[eknkc]

I didn't know this was a thing. The article mentions it can do equality, range, prefix, suffix and substring queries. Does this mean that the encryption scheme creates sortable 1:1 mapped results after encryption? Kind of like a shift cipher?

[tyingq → eknkc]

They mention this:

"Queryable Encryption was designed by MongoDB’s Advanced Cryptography Research Group, headed by Seny Kamara and Tarik Moataz"

Some related papers with those two as authors:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/453.pdf

https://cs.brown.edu/people/seny/pubs/sgx.pdf