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We present the first protocol for oblivious transfer that can be implemented with an optical continuous-variable system, and prove its security in the noisy-storage model. This model allows security to be achieved by sending more quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Fabian Furrer , Christian Schaffner , Stephanie Wehner

The noisy-storage model of quantum cryptography allows for information-theoretically secure two-party computation based on the assumption that a cheating user has at most access to an imperfect, noisy quantum memory, whereas the honest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Cosmo Lupo , James T. Peat , Erika Andersson , Pieter Kok

Classical information theory typically assumes reliable receiver-side processing. We study remote inference when communication is noisy and the receiver itself is built from unreliable components under a finite redundancy budget. Under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhenyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Noisy channels are a valuable resource from a cryptographic point of view. They can be used for exchanging secret-keys as well as realizing other cryptographic primitives such as commitment and oblivious transfer. To be really useful, noisy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Claude Crépeau , Rafael Dowsley , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

Fundamental primitives such as bit commitment and oblivious transfer serve as building blocks for many other two-party protocols. Hence, the secure implementation of such primitives are important in modern cryptography. In this work, we…

This paper revisits the problems of Private Information Retrieval (PIR) and Symmetric PIR (SPIR). In PIR, a user retrieves a desired message from $N$ replicated, non-communicating databases, each storing the same $M$ messages, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Or Elimelech , Asaf Cohen

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows a client to privately access a database without revealing which element is accessed. Initial PIR protocols based on Ring Learning with Errors (RLWE) demonstrated the practicality of PIR, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi , Abdulrahman Diaa , Florian Kerschbaum

Co-simulation offers an integrated approach for modeling the large-scale integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) into transmission and distribution grids. This paper presents a scalable communication interface design and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Qi Xiao , Jongha Woo , Lidong Song , Ning Lu , Victor Paduani

Noisy channels are a foundational resource for constructing cryptographic primitives such as string commitment and oblivious transfer. The noisy channel model has been extended to unfair noisy channels, where adversaries can influence the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jiawei Wu , Masahito Hayashi , Marco Tomamichel

Information theoretic secret key agreement is impossible without making initial assumptions. One type of initial assumption is correlated random variables that are generated by using a noisy channel that connects the terminals. Terminals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Alireza Poostindouz , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

In this paper, we consider a discrete memoryless point to point channel with noisy feedback, where there is a sender with a private message that she wants to communicate to a receiver by sequentially transmitting symbols over a noisy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Deepanshu Vasal

In (single-server) Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a server holds a large database $DB$ of size $n$, and a client holds an index $i \in [n]$ and wishes to retrieve $DB[i]$ without revealing $i$ to the server. It is well known that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Dorit Aharonov , Zvika Brakerski , Kai-Min Chung , Ayal Green , Ching-Yi Lai , Or Sattath

A 2-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the $i$th bit of an $n$-bit database replicated among two servers (which do not communicate) while not revealing any information about $i$ to either server. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zeev Dvir , Sivakanth Gopi

The increased deployment of machine learning inference in various applications has sparked privacy concerns. In response, private inference (PI) protocols have been created to allow parties to perform inference without revealing their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou

In the content-oblivious (CO) model (proposed by Censor-Hillel et al.), processes inhabit an asynchronous network and communicate only by exchanging pulses. A series of works has clarified the computational power of this model. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jérémie Chalopin , Yi-Jun Chang , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Haoran Zhou

Modern virtual personal assistants provide a convenient interface for completing daily tasks via voice commands. An important consideration for these assistants is the ability to recover from automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Shang-Wen Li , Jin Cao , Jared Casale , Peter Henderson , David Whitney , Alborz Geramifard

It was shown in [WST08] that cryptographic primitives can be implemented based on the assumption that quantum storage of qubits is noisy. In this work we analyze a protocol for the universal task of oblivious transfer that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-09 Christian Schaffner , Barbara Terhal , Stephanie Wehner

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

In the field of interactive coding, two or more parties wish to carry out a distributed computation over a communication network that may be noisy. The ultimate goal is to develop efficient coding schemes that can tolerate a high level of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ran Gelles , Yael T. Kalai , Govind Ramnarayan

Covert channel attacks have been continuously studied as severe threats to modern computing systems. Software-based covert channels are a typically hard-to-detect branch of these attacks, since they leverage virtual resources to establish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez , Jose Alejandro Ibarra-Campos , Jesus Yamir Sandoval-Morales , Lars Bauer , Jörg Henkel