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A private information retrieval (PIR) protocol guarantees that a user can privately retrieve files stored in a database without revealing any information about the identity of the requested file. Existing information-theoretic PIR protocols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

Private information retrieval systems (PIRs) allow a user to extract an item from a database that is replicated over k>=1 servers, while satisfying various privacy constraints. We exhibit quantum k-server symmetrically-private information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Iordanis Kerenidis , Ronald de Wolf

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a database query protocol that provides user privacy, in that the user can learn a particular entry of the database of his interest but his query would be hidden from the data centre. Symmetric private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Wen Yu Kon , Charles Ci Wen Lim

We study the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) in the presence of prior side information. The problem setup includes a database of $K$ independent messages possibly replicated on several servers, and a user that needs to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Swanand Kadhe , Brenden Garcia , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Salim El Rouayheb , Alex Sprintson

We propose an information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) scheme for distributed storage systems where data is stored using a linear systematic code of rate $R > 1/2$. The proposed scheme generalizes the PIR scheme for data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We present a private information retrieval (PIR) scheme that allows a user to retrieve a single message from an arbitrary number of databases by colluding with other users while hiding the desired message index. This scheme is of particular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-29 William Barnhart , Zhi Tian

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols ensure that a user can download a file from a database without revealing any information on the identity of the requested file to the servers storing the database. While existing protocols…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows clients to retrieve database entries without leaking retrieval indices, yet malicious servers seriously compromise retrieval correctness. Existing Authenticated PIR (APIR) schemes resist…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Pengzhen Ke , Yuxuan Qin , Liang Feng Zhang

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a client to retrieve a data item $x_i$ among $n$ items $x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n$ from $k$ servers, without revealing what $i$ is even when $t < k$ servers collude and try to learn $i$. Such a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Quang Cao , Hong Yen Tran , Son Hoang Dau , Xun Yi , Emanuele Viterbo , Chen Feng , Yu-Chih Huang , Jingge Zhu , Stanislav Kruglik , Han Mao Kiah

Consider Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a client wants to retrieve one file out of $K$ files that are replicated in $N$ different servers and the client selection must remain private when up to $T$ servers may collude.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Hassan ZivariFard , Remi A. Chou

This work presents an algorithmic framework that uses linear programming to construct \emph{addition-based Private Information Retrieval (AB-PIR)} schemes, where retrieval is performed by downloading only linear combinations of message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Ningze Wang , Alex Sprintson

We study a class of private information retrieval (PIR) methods that we call one-shot schemes. The intuition behind one-shot schemes is the following. The user's query is regarded as a dot product of a query vector and the message vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve a file from a database without revealing any information on the file being requested. As of now, PIR schemes have been proposed for several kinds of storage systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Julien Lavauzelle , Razane Tajeddine , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem a user wishes to retrieve, as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while revealing nothing about the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

In a Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol, a user can download a file from a database without revealing the identity of the file to each individual server. A PIR protocol is called $t$-private if the identity of the file remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo , Eitan Yaakobi

Suppose there are $N$ distributed databases each storing a full set of $M$ independent files. A user wants to retrieve $r$ out of the $M$ files without revealing the identity of the $r$ files. When $r=1$ it is the classic problem of private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes enable users to securely retrieve files from a server without disclosing the content of their queries, thereby preserving their privacy. In 2008, Melchor and Gaborit proposed a PIR scheme that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Svenja Lage

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows users to retrieve data from a database without disclosing to the server information about the identity of the data retrieved. A coded storage in a distributed storage system with colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Şeyma Bodur , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Diego Ruano

In this paper, the problem of providing privacy to users requesting data over a network from a distributed storage system (DSS) is considered. The DSS, which is considered as the multi-terminal destination of the network from the user's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Camilla Hollanti

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental problem in the broader fields of security and privacy. In recent years, the problem has garnered significant attention from the research community, leading to achievability schemes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ningze Wang , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson