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In Private Information Retrieval (PIR), one wants to download a file from a database without revealing to the database which file is being downloaded. Much attention has been paid to the case of the database being encoded across several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Razane Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , David Karpuk , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti , Salim El Rouayheb

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols make it possible to retrieve a file from a database without disclosing any information about the identity of the file being retrieved. These protocols have been rigorously explored from an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database without revealing any information about the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic $k$-server PIR, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Arman Fazeli , Alexander Vardy , Eitan Yaakobi

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol based on coding theory for a single server is proposed. It provides computational security against linear algebra attacks, addressing the main drawback of previous PIR proposals based on coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Şeyma Bodur , Edgar Martínez-Moro , Diego Ruano

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that enables users to retrieve data from a database without revealing which item is being accessed, thereby preserving query privacy. However, PIR protocols also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lin Zhu , Lingwei Kong , Xin Ning , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang

Given a database, the private information retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a user to make queries to several servers and retrieve a certain item of the database via the feedbacks, without revealing the privacy of the specific item to any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Yiwei Zhang , Xin Wang , Hengjia Wei , Gennian Ge

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) considers the problem of retrieving a data item from a database or distributed storage system without disclosing any information about which data item was retrieved. Secure PIR complements this problem by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Okko Makkonen , David Karpuk , Camilla Hollanti

We present a general framework for Private Information Retrieval (PIR) from arbitrary coded databases, that allows one to adjust the rate of the scheme according to the suspected number of colluding servers. If the storage code is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Oliver Gnilke , Camilla Hollanti , David Karpuk

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

Retrieving up-to-date information from a publicly accessible database poses significant threats to the user's privacy. {\em Private information retrieval} (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve any entry from a database, without revealing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Liang Feng Zhang

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a mechanism for efficiently downloading messages while keeping the index secret. Here, PIRs in which servers do not communicate with each other are called standard PIRs, and PIRs in which some servers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Atsushi Miki , Yusuke Morishita , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a privacy setting that allows a user to download a required message from a set of messages stored in a system of databases without revealing the index of the required message to the databases. PIR was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sajani Vithana , Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

In the era of extensive data growth, robust and efficient mechanisms are needed to store and manage vast amounts of digital information, such as Data Storage Systems (DSSs). Concurrently, privacy concerns have arisen, leading to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Matteo Allaix

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme is a protocol that allows a user to retrieve a file from a database without revealing the identity of the desired file to a curious database. Given a distributed data storage system, efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Camilla Hollanti , Neehar Verma

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve a record from the server without revealing any information on which record is being downloaded. In this paper, we consider PIR schemes where the database is stored using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Chatdanai Dorkson , Siaw-Lynn Ng

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of privately retrieving one out of $M$ original files from $N$ severs, i.e., each individual server learns nothing about the file that the user is requesting. Usually, the $M$ files are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Jie Li , David Karpuk , Camilla Hollanti

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a client to retrieve any file of interest, while hiding the file identity from the database servers. In contrast to most existing PIR schemes that assume honest-but-curious servers, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Stanislav Kruglik , Son Hoang Dau , Han Mao Kiah , Huaxiong Wang

In this paper, we present a new perspective of single server private information retrieval (PIR) schemes by using the notion of linear error-correcting codes. Many of the known single server schemes are based on taking linear combinations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Gianira N. Alfarano , Karan Khathuria , Violetta Weger
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