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Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that enables users to retrieve data from a database without revealing which item is being accessed, thereby preserving query privacy. However, PIR protocols also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lin Zhu , Lingwei Kong , Xin Ning , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang

Retrieving up-to-date information from a publicly accessible database poses significant threats to the user's privacy. {\em Private information retrieval} (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve any entry from a database, without revealing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Liang Feng Zhang

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a database query protocol that provides user privacy, in that the user can learn a particular entry of the database of his interest but his query would be hidden from the data centre. Symmetric private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Wen Yu Kon , Charles Ci Wen Lim

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

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 (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

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) is a privacy setting that allows a user to download a required message from a set of messages stored in a system of databases without revealing the index of the required message to the databases. PIR was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sajani Vithana , Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

In a Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol, a user can download a file from a database without revealing the identity of the file to each individual server. A PIR protocol is called $t$-private if the identity of the file remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Netanel Raviv , Itzhak Tamo , Eitan Yaakobi

We present a private information retrieval (PIR) scheme that allows a user to retrieve a single message from an arbitrary number of databases by colluding with other users while hiding the desired message index. This scheme is of particular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-29 William Barnhart , Zhi Tian

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) protocols make it possible to retrieve a file from a database without disclosing any information about the identity of the file being retrieved. These protocols have been rigorously explored from an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Hsuan-Yin Lin , Siddhartha Kumar , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eitan Yaakobi

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

Privacy of the outsourced data is one of the major challenge.Insecurity of the network environment and untrustworthiness of the service providers are obstacles of making the database as a service.Collection and storage of personally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Divya G. Nair , V. P. Binu , G. Santhosh Kumar

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a foundational component of modern AI systems, yet it introduces significant privacy risks by exposing user queries to service providers. To address this, we introduce PIR-RAG, a practical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Baiqiang Wang , Qian Lou , Mengxin Zheng , Dongfang Zhao

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to download one of $K$ messages from $N$ databases without revealing to any database which of the $K$ messages is being downloaded. In general, the databases can be storage constrained where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to retrieve a desired message out of $K$ possible messages from $N$ databases without revealing the identity of the desired message. Majority of existing works on PIR assume the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Maryam Abdul-Wahid , Firas Almoualem , Deepak Kumar , Ravi Tandon

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows clients to retrieve database entries without leaking retrieval indices, yet malicious servers seriously compromise retrieval correctness. Existing Authenticated PIR (APIR) schemes resist…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Pengzhen Ke , Yuxuan Qin , Liang Feng Zhang
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