TrustSearch: Toward Secure and Efficient Reverse Image Search via SGX
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Source: IEEE Xplore (Security & AI Journals)June 1, 2026
Summary
TrustSearch is a system that performs reverse image search (finding similar images in a database) on encrypted data stored in the cloud while protecting user privacy. It uses Intel SGX (a trusted execution environment, which is a secure area on a processor where sensitive operations can run protected from outside access) to search images without decrypting them, but had to optimize its design because SGX has limited memory and processing resources.
Classification
Attack SophisticationAdvanced
Impact (CIA+S)
confidentiality
Affected Vendors
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Original source: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11536867
First tracked: June 8, 2026 at 02:01 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 72%