BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Regina BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19600424T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260427T011727Z UID:F5C9C1E7-2C82-4787-9270-9E48DC3AE30B DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20260508T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20260508T130000 DESCRIPTION:Summary: Searchable encryption has emerged as a key cryptograph ic technology for enabling efficient search over encrypted data while pres erving confidentiality in untrusted environments. In this talk\, I will in troduce the fundamental concepts of searchable encryption methodologies an d discuss the privacy challenges that have shaped their evolution. The pre sentation will review the historical development of searchable encryption\ , highlighting how early designs addressed basic functionality and how sub sequent approaches responded to increasingly sophisticated privacy threats \, such as access-pattern and leakage attacks. I will then present a struc tured classification of searchable encryption methodologies\, offering a c onceptual framework that helps clarify existing designs and their privacy trade-offs. This classification aims to strengthen the foundation for reas oning about privacy guarantees and to support the design of more robust an d practical schemes. The talk will also touch on emerging directions\, inc luding usability considerations and the interaction between searchable enc ryption and modern data-driven systems. The goal of this talk is to provid e an accessible introduction to searchable encryption and its privacy chal lenges\, while motivating researchers and practitioners to further explore open problems and contribute to advancing privacy-preserving search techn ologies.\n\nSpeaker(s): Khosro Salmani\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.i eee.org/m/557289 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/557289 ORGANIZER:shahedur.rahman@sasktel.net SEQUENCE:61 SUMMARY:Searchable Encryption: Foundations\, Privacy Challenges\, and Emerg ing Directions URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/557289 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Summary</strong>: Searchable encry ption 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 tha t have shaped their evolution. The presentation will review the historical development of searchable encryption\, highlighting how early designs add ressed basic functionality and how subsequent approaches responded to incr easingly sophisticated privacy threats\, such as access-pattern and leakag e attacks. I will then present a structured classification of searchable e ncryption methodologies\, offering a conceptual framework that helps clari fy existing designs and their privacy trade-offs. This classification aims to strengthen the foundation for reasoning about privacy guarantees and t o support the design of more robust and practical schemes. The talk will a lso touch on emerging directions\, including usability considerations and the interaction between searchable encryption and modern data-driven syste ms. The goal of this talk is to provide an accessible introduction to sear chable encryption and its privacy challenges\, while motivating researcher s and practitioners to further explore open problems and contribute to adv ancing privacy-preserving search technologies.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR