Searchable encryption is a powerful and useful primitive when users want to store their encrypted files on cloud storages. In this paper, we demonstrate security flaws of the searchable encryption scheme proposed by Wang et al. in 2017. Furthermore, we propose a solution to fix the flaws, and the improved scheme also largely reduces the length of the ciphertext such that it is independent of the number of the attributes.
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