Dynamic graph updates for Fragment Tree and BlindGES

Extend both the Fragment Tree attack and the BlindGES graph-encryption scheme to support dynamic graph updates in which vertices and edges may be added or removed over time, rather than assuming a static graph.

Background

The report analyzes structural leakage in PathGES and presents the Fragment Tree attack for recovering shortest-path queries from leaked token relationships. It also introduces BlindGES, which uses a Merge-and-Divide mechanism and a two-level multimap index to reduce one-to-one token-to-path mappings and suppress path-length leakage.

Both approaches are presented under a static-graph assumption: the encrypted indexes, shortest-path trees, heavy-light decompositions, path fragments, and leakage analyses are constructed for a fixed graph. Supporting insertions and deletions of vertices or edges would therefore require methods for updating these structures and preserving the intended security and query-efficiency properties without rebuilding the entire scheme or attack model.

References

Fourth, extending both the Fragment Tree attack and BlindGES to support dynamic graph updates—where vertices and edges are added or removed over time—remains an open challenge, as the current schemes assume static graphs.

Structural Leakage in Graph Encryption: Attacks and Defenses  (2608.13981 - Shen et al., 14 Aug 2026) in Section 8, Limitations and Future Work Directions