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{{Short description|SearchableSystem symmetricallowing encryption (SSE) is a form of encryption that allows one to efficiently search over a collectionsearching of encrypted documents or files without the ability to decrypt them}}

[[File:Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) scheme.png|thumb|400x400px|Keyword search using an SSE scheme]]

'''Searchable symmetric encryption''' ('''SSE''') is a form of [[encryption]] that allows one to efficiently search over a collection of encrypted documents or files without the ability to decrypt them.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Dawn Xiaoding Song|last2=Wagner|first2=D.|last3=Perrig|first3=A.|title=Practical techniques for searches on encrypted data|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/secpri.2000.848445|journal=Proceeding 2000 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. S&P 2000|year=2000|pages=44–55|publisher=IEEE Comput. Soc|doi=10.1109/secpri.2000.848445|isbn=0-7695-0665-8|s2cid=2829840}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Curtmola|first1=Reza|last2=Garay|first2=Juan|last3=Kamara|first3=Seny|last4=Ostrovsky|first4=Rafail|date=2006-10-30|title=Searchable symmetric encryption: improved definitions and efficient constructions|url=https://doi.org/10.1145/1180405.1180417|journal=Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security|series=CCS '06|___location=Alexandria, Virginia, USA|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|pages=79–88|doi=10.1145/1180405.1180417|isbn=978-1-59593-518-2|s2cid=961719}}</ref> SSE can be used to outsource files to an untrusted cloud storage server without ever revealing the files in the clear but while preserving the server's ability to search over them.