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Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a privacy-preserving primitive in cryptography. Significant endeavors have been made to address the variant of PIR concerning the malicious servers. Among those endeavors, list-decodable Byzantine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Pengzhen Ke , Liang Feng Zhang , Huaxiong Wang , Li-Ping Wang

We design new minimal-subpacketization schemes for information-theoretic private information retrieval on graph-based replicated databases. In graph-based replication, the system consists of $K$ files replicated across $N$ servers according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Vayur Shanbhag , Prasad Krishnan

Recently it was shown that the seminal Maddah-Ali and Niesen (MAN) coded caching scheme leaks the demand information of each user to the others. Many works have considered coded caching with demand privacy, while each non-trivial existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

This work considers the problem of privately outsourcing the computation of a matrix product over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ to $N$ helper servers. These servers are considered to be honest but curious, i.e., they behave according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jie Li , Okko Makkonen , Camilla Hollanti , Oliver Gnilke

We consider the problem of storing data in a distributed manner over $T$ servers. We require the data (i) to be recoverable from the $T$ servers, and (ii) to remain private from any $T-1$ colluding servers, where privacy is quantified in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Remi A. Chou , Joerg Kliewer

With our growing reliability on distributed networks, the security aspect of such networks becomes of prime importance. In large scale distributed networks it becomes cardinal to have an efficient and effective monitoring scheme. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Atul Vaibhav

Secret sharing schemes are widely used now a days in various applications, which need more security, trust and reliability. In secret sharing scheme, the secret is divided among the participants and only authorized set of participants can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-24 V P Binu , A Sreekumar

Private information retrieval from a single server is considered, utilizing random linear codes. Presented is a modified version of the first code-based single-server computational PIR scheme proposed by Holzbaur, Hollanti, and Wachter-Zeh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Neehar Verma , Camilla Hollanti

Reliability in distributed storage systems has typically focused on the design and deployment of data replication or erasure coding techniques. Although some scenarios have considered the use of replication for hot data and erasure coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel E. Lucani , Marcell Fehér

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin

Service rate is an important, recently introduced, performance metric associated with distributed coded storage systems. Among other interpretations, it measures the number of users that can be simultaneously served by the storage system.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Fatemeh Kazemi , Sascha Kurz , Emina Soljanin

An information theoretic approach to security and privacy called Secure And Private Information Retrieval (SAPIR) is introduced. SAPIR is applied to distributed data storage systems. In this approach, random combinations of all contents are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Mohsen Karimzadeh Kiskani , Hamid Sadjadpour

We introduce the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) on replicated databases modeled by a simple graph. In this model, each vertex corresponds to a server, and a message is replicated on two servers if and only if…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

The advent of large-scale, complex computing systems has dramatically increased the difficulties of securing accesses to systems' resources. To ensure confidentiality and integrity, the exploitation of access control mechanisms has thus…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Andrea Margheri , Rosario Pugliese , Francesco Tiezzi

While mutual information effectively quantifies dependence between two variables, it does not by itself reveal the complex, fine-grained interactions among variables, i.e., how multiple sources contribute redundantly, uniquely, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Aobo Lyu , Andrew Clark , Netanel Raviv

Private information retrieval (PIR) codes and batch codes are two important types of codes that are designed for coded distributed storage systems and private information retrieval protocols. These codes have been the focus of much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xiangliang Kong , Ohad Elishco

In private information delivery (PID) problem, there are $K$ messages stored across $N$ servers, each capable of storing $M$ messages and a user. Servers want to convey one of the $K$ messages to the user without revealing the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows a client to retrieve an entry $\text{DB}[i]$ from a public database $\text{DB}$ held by one or more servers, without revealing the queried index $i$. Traditional PIR schemes achieve sublinear…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Elian Morel

Any secured system can be modeled as a capability-based access control system in which each user is given a set of secret keys of the resources he is granted access to. In some large systems with resource-constrained devices, such as sensor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Aldar C-F. Chan

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure codes are used to achieve fault tolerance in the face of node failures. Tuning code parameters to observed failure rates has been shown to significantly reduce storage cost. Such tuning of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Francisco Maturana , V. S. Chaitanya Mukka , K. V. Rashmi