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Shor's algorithm efficiently solves factoring and discrete logarithm problems using quantum computers, compromising all public key schemes used today. These schemes rely on assumptions on their computational complexity, which quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Jaime S. Buruaga , Ruben B. Méndez , Juan P. Brito , Vicente Martin

This paper studies privacy and secure function evaluation in communication complexity. The focus is on quantum versions of the model and on protocols with only approximate privacy against honest players. We show that the privacy loss (the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Klauck

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) from multiple storage nodes when the underlying database is encoded using regenerating codes, i.e., the database has the ability to recover from individual node failures. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Adway Patra , Navin Kashyap

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm for efficiently solving large and high-complexity problems. To protect quantum computing privacy, pioneering research efforts proposed to redefine differential privacy (DP) in quantum computing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Hui Zhong , Keyi Ju , Manojna Sistla , Xinyue Zhang , Xiaoqi Qin , Xin Fu , Miao Pan

Users and organizations are generating ever-increasing amounts of private data from a wide range of sources. Incorporating private data is important to personalize open-domain applications such as question-answering, fact-checking, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Simran Arora , Patrick Lewis , Angela Fan , Jacob Kahn , Christopher Ré

In two-party quantum communication complexity, Alice and Bob receive some classical inputs and wish to compute some function that depends on both these inputs, while minimizing the communication. This model has found numerous applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Iordanis Kerenidis , Mathieu Laurière , François Le Gall , Mathys Rennela

We consider the problem of downloading content from a cellular network where content is cached at the wireless edge while achieving privacy. In particular, we consider private information retrieval (PIR) of content from a library of files,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Siddhartha Kumar , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes , Linda Senigagliesi

There has been a growing interest in Internet user privacy, demonstrated by the popularity of privacy-preserving products such as Telegram and Brave, and the widespread adoption of HTTPS. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a key component of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunming Xiao , Peizhi Liu , Ruijie Yu , Chenkai Weng , Matteo Varvello , Aleksandar Kuzmanovic

User profiling is crucial in providing personalised services, as it relies on analysing user behaviour and preferences to deliver targeted services. This approach enhances user experience and promotes heightened engagement. Nevertheless,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-07 Imdad Ullah , Najm Hassan , Tariq Ahamed Ahangar , Zawar Hussain Shah , Mehregan Mahdavi , Andrew Levula

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

We reformulate the definition of privacy in the private information retrieval (PIR) problem to accommodate flexible privacy requirements. We focus on graph-replicated PIR, with a generalized privacy requirement, instead of requiring all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mohamed Nomeir , Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of multi-access cache-aided multi-user Private Information Retrieval (MuPIR). In this problem, several files are replicated across multiple servers. There are $K$ users and $C$ cache nodes. Each user can access $L$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Kanishak Vaidya , B Sundar Rajan

We present a new technique for proving the security of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols. It is based on direct information-theoretic arguments and thus also applies if no equivalent entanglement purification scheme can be found.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Renner , N. Gisin , B. Kraus

Motivated by an open problem and a conjecture, this work studies the problem of single server private information retrieval with private coded side information (PIR-PCSI) that was recently introduced by Heidarzadeh et al. The goal of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuxiang Lu , Syed Ali Jafar

The problem of private information retrieval (PIR) is to retrieve one message out of $K$ messages replicated at $N$ databases, without revealing the identity of the desired message to the databases. We consider the problem of PIR with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Qiwen Wang , Mikael Skoglund

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is becoming increasingly prevalent due to its potential to enhance classical machine learning (ML) tasks, such as classification. Although quantum noise is often viewed as a major challenge in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Hoang M. Ngo , Tre' R. Jeter , Incheol Shin , Wanli Xing , Tamer Kahveci , My T. Thai

We introduce baseSPIDER and SPIDER, private information retrieval (PIR) schemes that embody two technical advancements. The baseSPIDER protocol operates with a single server and a stateful client that performs pre-processing and stores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ofir Dvir , Kali Hale , Javin Zipkin , Divyakant Agrawal , Dahlia Malkhi

The advent of quantum computing poses a significant threat to the foundational cryptographic algorithms that secure modern digital communications. Protocols such as HTTPS, digital certificates, and public key infrastructures (PKIs) heavily…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Arimondo Scrivano

In this paper, we present a quantum-key-distribution (QKD)-based quantum private query (QPQ) protocol utilizing single-photon signal of multiple optical pulses. It maintains the advantages of the QKD-based QPQ, i.e., easy to implement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Bin Liu , Fei Gao , Wei Huang , Qiao-yan Wen

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is a cryptographic protocol in which a quantum secret is distributed among a number of parties where some subsets of the parties are able to recover the secret while some subsets are unable to recover the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Kaushik Senthoor , Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli