The innovation in CSE

CSE represents a technological solution based on isomorphism, a transformation that preserves information, as it can offer searching, browsing, and manipulation on encrypted data, that is, with zero knowledge; encrypted, sensitive data stored on public cloud providers will eventually be fully accessible by data owners only, still allowing cloud providers to offer searching, browsing, and manipulation over encrypted data by means of encrypted queries, thereby preserving the zero knowledge. CSE is able to operate independently according to the kind of encryption that the user decides to adopt. On the one hand, private users could take back legitimate ownership of the value of their data and eventually trade it back to service providers through a fair deal, which is very different from the take-it-or-leave-it approach that we currently witness; this is a key value for the next generation of digital citizens who could also exchange or sell their data autonomously...