"Certificateless Public Key Authenticated Encryption with Keyword Searc" by Jingwei Lu, Hongbo Li et al.
Transforming data into ciphertexts and storing them in the cloud database is a secure way to simplify data management. Public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) is an important cryptographic primitive as it provides the ability to search for the desired files among ciphertexts. As a variant of PEKS, certificateless public key authenticated encryption with keyword search (CLPAEKS) not only simplifies certificate management but also could resist keyword guessing attacks (KGA). In this paper, we analyze the security models of two recent CLPAEKS schemes and find that they ignore the threat ...