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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-information-and-optimization-sciences</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0103</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0252-2667</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIOS-2503</article-id>
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        <article-title>Privacy-preserving medical data indexing in post-quantum clouds</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Tahsildar</surname>
            <given-names>Mehru  Salahuddin</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Pathology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Krishna Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), Karad, Maharashtra, 415539, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Pawar</surname>
            <given-names>Manisha Sagar</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Engineering Science and Humanities, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, 411037, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Ajani</surname>
            <given-names>Samir N.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Computer Science and Engineering, Ramdeobaba University, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 440013, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Kumar</surname>
            <given-names>Ravula  Arun</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Shamshabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, 501218, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Bibhu</surname>
            <given-names>Vimal</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Engineering &amp; Technology, Noida International University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201312, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Packirisamy</surname>
            <given-names>Subbulakshmi</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Pharmacology, Meenakshi Ammal Dental College &amp; Hospital, Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education &amp; Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600095, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>47</volume>
      <issue>10</issue>
      <fpage>3789</fpage>
      <lpage>3798</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>Cloud-based medical data indexing enhances clinical data retrieval, but raises concerns about the privacy of medical data and the patterns of their searches when subjected to new quantum attacks. The privacy-preserving indexing framework proposed in this work is a hybrid between post-quantum key derivation, cryptographic hashing, probabilistic security and encrypted keyword vectors. Medical documents are converted to vector format, and queried with trapdoors, which are random but contain specific keywords and access patterns. Lattice resistant primitives provide security against classical and quantum adversaries for construction of indexes, processing of queries and establishment of session keys. Experimental testing shows that 96.8% retrieval accuracy, 34.6% lower search latency and 29.4% communication overhead reduction are achieved compared to the conventional encrypted indexing. It provides privacy, allows for searches that are not connected to the other data, and enables quick retrieval of data, thus helping secure cloud-based healthcare applications without compromising patient privacy in the post-quantum era.</p>
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