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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

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

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

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow clients to retrieve files from a database without disclosing the requested file's identity to the server. In the pursuit of post-quantum security, most recent PIR schemes rely on hard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Svenja Lage , Hannes Bartz

In this paper we present an attack on a recently proposed code-based Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme. Indeed, the server can retrieve the index of the desired file with high probability in polynomial time. The attack relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Luana Kurmann , Svenja Lage , Violetta Weger

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

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

In a typical formulation of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem, a single user wishes to retrieve one out of $ K$ files from $N$ servers without revealing the demanded file index to any server. This paper formulates an extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ali Gholami , Kai Wan , Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

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

We propose an information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) scheme for distributed storage systems where data is stored using a linear systematic code of rate $R > 1/2$. The proposed scheme generalizes the PIR scheme for data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

In this paper, the problem of providing privacy to users requesting data over a network from a distributed storage system (DSS) is considered. The DSS, which is considered as the multi-terminal destination of the network from the user's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Razane Tajeddine , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Camilla Hollanti

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) protocols allow a user to retrieve entries of a database without revealing the index of the desired item. Information-theoretical privacy can be achieved by the use of several servers and specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Julien Lavauzelle

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a client to retrieve a data item $x_i$ among $n$ items $x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n$ from $k$ servers, without revealing what $i$ is even when $t < k$ servers collude and try to learn $i$. Such a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Quang Cao , Hong Yen Tran , Son Hoang Dau , Xun Yi , Emanuele Viterbo , Chen Feng , Yu-Chih Huang , Jingge Zhu , Stanislav Kruglik , Han Mao Kiah

This work presents an algorithmic framework that uses linear programming to construct \emph{addition-based Private Information Retrieval (AB-PIR)} schemes, where retrieval is performed by downloading only linear combinations of message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Ningze Wang , Alex Sprintson

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) problem has recently attracted a significant interest in the information-theory community. In this problem, a user wants to privately download one or more messages belonging to a database with copies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Swanand Kadhe , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

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

Consider the problem of Private Information Retrieval (PIR), where a user wishes to retrieve a single message from $N$ non-communicating and non-colluding databases (servers). All servers store the same set of $M$ messages and they respond…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen

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

In the classical private information retrieval (PIR) setup, a user wants to retrieve a file from a database or a distributed storage system (DSS) without revealing the file identity to the servers holding the data. In the quantum PIR (QPIR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Matteo Allaix , Lukas Holzbaur , Tefjol Pllaha , Camilla Hollanti
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