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In Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a client queries an n-bit database in order to retrieve an entry of her choice, while maintaining privacy of her query value. Chor, Goldreich, Kushilevitz, and Sudan showed that, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Ämin Baumeler , Anne Broadbent

Motivated by the applications of secure multiparty computation as a privacy-protecting data analysis tool, and identifying oblivious transfer as one of its main practical enablers, we propose a practical realization of randomized quantum…

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

We formulate a new variant of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem where the user is pliable, i.e., interested in any message from a desired subset of the available dataset, denoted as pliable private information retrieval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sarah A. Obead , Jörg Kliewer

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

Consider updates arriving online in which the $t$th input is $(i_t,d_t)$, where $i_t$'s are thought of as IDs of users. Informally, a randomized function $f$ is {\em differentially private} with respect to the IDs if the probability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Darakhshan Mir , S. Muthukrishnan , Aleksandar Nikolov , Rebecca N. Wright

This work introduces PAS -- Privacy Anchor Substitution, a structured mechanism for enabling user location privacy in spatial retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Unlike conventional differential privacy methods that directly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kennedy Edemacu , Mohammad Mahdi Shokri , Vinay M. Shashidhar , Jong Wook Kim

Low-level C programs remain highly vulnerable to out-of-bounds memory corruption. State-of-the-art precise defenses either introduce severe runtime overhead due to metadata memory lookups, or break standard C semantics by disallowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Piyus Kedia

In structured peer-to-peer networks, like Chord, users find data by asking a number of intermediate nodes in the network. Each node provides the identity of the closet known node to the address of the data, until eventually the node…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Angeliki Aktypi , Kasper Rasmussen

This paper investigates lift, the likelihood ratio between the posterior and prior belief about sensitive features in a dataset. Maximum and minimum lifts over sensitive features quantify the adversary's knowledge gain and should be bounded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Mohammad Amin Zarrabian , Ni Ding , Parastoo Sadeghi

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) where a single user with private side information aims to retrieve multiple files from a library stored (uncoded) at a number of servers. We assume the side information at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We consider a problem where mutually untrusting curators possess portions of a vertically partitioned database containing information about a set of individuals. The goal is to enable an authorized party to obtain aggregate (statistical)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Bing-Rong Lin , Ye Wang , Shantanu Rane

In information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR), a client wants to retrieve one desired file out of $M$ files, stored across $N$ servers, while keeping the index of the desired file private from each $T$-sized subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chandan Anand , Jayesh Seshadri , Prasad Krishnan , Gowtham R. Kurri

We consider the private information retrieval (PIR) problem for a multigraph-based replication system, where each set of $r$ files is stored on two of the servers according to an underlying $r$-multigraph. Our goal is to establish upper and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shreya Meel , Xiangliang Kong , Thomas Jacob Maranzatto , Itzhak Tamo , Sennur Ulukus

The widespread adoption of cloud-based solutions introduces privacy and security concerns. Techniques such as homomorphic encryption (HE) mitigate this problem by allowing computation over encrypted data without the need for decryption.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mpoki Mwaisela , Joel Hari , Peterson Yuhala , Jämes Ménétrey , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme on coded storage systems with colluding, byzantine, and non-responsive servers is presented. Furthermore, the scheme can also be used for symmetric PIR in the same setting. An explicit scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Razane Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , David Karpuk , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti

Oblivious Transfer (OT) is a fundamental cryptographic protocol that finds a number of applications, in particular, as an essential building block for two-party and multi-party computation. We construct a round-optimal (2 rounds)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Paulo S. L. M. Barreto , Bernardo David , Rafael Dowsley , Kirill Morozov , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

Oblivious Transfer (OT) is a fundamental cryptographic protocol with applications in secure Multi-Party Computation, Federated Learning, and Private Set Intersection. With the advent of quantum computing, it is crucial to develop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aydin Abadi , Yvo Desmedt

Suppose a database containing $M$ records is replicated across $N$ servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the retrieved record is secret against any up to $T$ servers. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jingke Xu , Zhifang Zhang

The problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) from coded storage systems with colluding, byzantine, and unresponsive servers is considered. An explicit scheme using an $[n,k]$ Reed-Solomon storage code is designed, protecting against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Razane Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , David Karpuk , Ragnar Freij-Hollanti , Camilla Hollanti