Hi Avarinth,

There is an open issue to encrypt index files using AES, don't know if
that would fit your requirements:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2228

Regards,
András

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Michael Wilkowski <m...@silenteight.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> sorry to say that, but your encryption is not secure at all. Actually it is
> very weak. Since you encrypt tokens only (and apply padding) then it is
> very easy based on the examples above to actually reverse engineer your
> text. If somebody understands the domain, has text distribution and may
> build so-called word2vec then he/she may easily use it to build a reverse
> dictionary of your tokens.
>
> On the other hand: this means that actually it should not be so difficult
> to build wildcard queries (at least with asterisk at the end, not at the
> beginning of the word). Check how fuzzy query works right now - it is query
> easy to understand and straightforward when looking in source code. I built
> my own version of FuzzyQuery some time ago based on MultiTermQuery class.
>
> MW
>
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> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:42 AM, aravinth thangasami <
> aravinththangas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Kindly post your suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:27 PM, aravinth thangasami <
>> aravinththangas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > To support Encryption at Rest, We have written a custom analyzer, that
>> > encrypts every token in the Input string and proceeds to the default
>> > indexing chain
>> >
>> > We are using AES/CTR/NoPadding with unique Key Per User.
>> > This helps that the input string with common prefix, the encrypted
>> strings
>> > will also get common prefix
>> > So that we can perform Prefix Query also.
>> >
>> > For example,
>> >
>> > run           x5X7
>> > runs  x5X7tg==
>> > running x5X7q/nE5g==
>> >
>> >
>> > During searching, we will preprocess the query for encrypted Field before
>> > searching
>> > we can't do  WildCard & Fuzzy Query
>> >
>> >
>> > Did anyone try this approach?
>> > Please post your suggestions and your tried approaches
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Aravinth
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>

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