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Building a password cracking server that preserves the privacy of the queries made to the server is a problem that has not yet been solved. Such a server could acquire practical relevance in the future: for instance, the tables used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Aureliano Calvo , Ariel Futoransky , Carlos Sarraute

This paper presents private information retrieval (PIR) schemes for coded storage with colluding servers, which are not restricted to maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. PIR schemes for general linear codes are constructed and the…

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

Post Randomization Methods (PRAM) are among the most popular disclosure limitation techniques for both categorical and continuous data. In the categorical case, given a stochastic matrix $M$ and a specified variable, an individual belonging…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-24 Fadhel Ayed , Marco Battiston , Federico Camerlenghi

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 many applications, content accessed by users (movies, videos, news articles, etc.) can leak sensitive latent attributes, such as religious and political views, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, and others. To prevent such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Islam Samy , Mohamed A. Attia , Ravi Tandon , Loukas Lazos

In a private information retrieval (PIR) system, the user needs to retrieve one of the possible messages from a set of storage servers, but wishes to keep the identity of requested message private from any given server. Existing efforts in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tao Guo , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

Modern computing systems are limited in performance by the memory bandwidth available to processors, a problem known as the memory wall. Processing-in-Memory (PIM) promises to substantially improve this problem by moving processing closer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sahar Ghoflsaz Ghinani , Jingyao Zhang , Elaheh Sadredini

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 2017-11-01 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

$X$-secure and $T$-private information retrieval (XSTPIR) is a variant of private information retrieval where data security is guaranteed against collusion among up to $X$ servers and the user's retrieval privacy is guaranteed against…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuan Gao , Weijun Fang , Jingke Xu , Jiejing Wen

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

Trusted Execution Environments, such as Intel SGX, use hardware supports to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of applications against a compromised cloud system. However, side channels like access patterns remain for adversaries to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-15 AKM Mubashwir Alam , Justin Boyce , Keke Chen

Interest in anonymous communication over distributed hash tables (DHTs) has increased in recent years. However, almost all known solutions solely aim at achieving sender or requestor anonymity in DHT queries. In many application scenarios,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Michael Backes , Ian Goldberg , Aniket Kate , Tomas Toft

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

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

The foreseen growing role of outsourced machine learning services is raising concerns about the privacy of user data. Several technical solutions are being proposed to address the issue. Hardware security modules in cloud data centres…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Marc Joye , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

Ensuring differential privacy of models learned from sensitive user data is an important goal that has been studied extensively in recent years. It is now known that for some basic learning problems, especially those involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman

We study the problem of leaky private information retrieval (L-PIR), where the amount of privacy leakage is measured by the pure differential privacy parameter, referred to as the leakage ratio exponent. Unlike the previous L-PIR scheme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Wenyuan Zhao , Yu-Shin Huang , Chao Tian , Alex Sprintson

The combination of Oblivious RAM (ORAM) with Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) has found numerous real-world applications due to their complementary nature. TEEs alleviate the performance bottlenecks of ORAM, such as network bandwidth…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Leqian Zheng , Zheng Zhang , Wentao Dong , Yao Zhang , Ye Wu , Cong Wang

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases, when the user is equipped with a cache that holds an uncoded fraction $r$ of the symbols from each of the $K$ stored messages in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Yi-Peng Wei , Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus