SECURING SEARCH SYSTEMS: AN END-TO-END ENCRYPTION FRAMEWORK FOR PRIVACY PRESERVATION

Modern search engines now face great difficulty in securing personally identifiable information (PII) given the exponential expansion in digital data processing and growing privacy protection issues.This article offers a complete architectural framework using encryption at every level of search infrastructure, therefore providing a creative method of privacy protection without compromising system performance.There are seven linked security elements in the framework that cooperate to provide unbreakable protection against privacy violations.Client-side encryption guarantees that searches are secured before transmission at the user interface level; Transport Layer Security (TLS) guarantees safe data transit across networks.Strong server-side encryption systems and particular database encryption methods for kept data help the framework to improve data safety even more.Advanced homomorphic encryption