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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

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

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a cryptographic primitive that allows a client to securely query one or multiple servers without revealing their specific interests. In spite of their strong security guarantees, current PIR…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mpoki Mwaisela , Peterson Yuhala , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of retrieving as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating replicated databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while keeping the identity of the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

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

We consider the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) with user-side common randomness. In SPIR, a user retrieves a message out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-colluding and replicated databases in such a way that no single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of private information retrieval (PIR) of a single message out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-colluding and non-replicated databases. Different from the majority of the existing literature, which considers the case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Karim Banawan , Sennur Ulukus

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

In the classical model for (information theoretically secure) Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a user wishes to retrieve one bit of a database that is stored on a set of $n$ servers, in such a way that no individual server gains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Simon R. Blackburn , Tuvi Etzion , Maura B. Paterson

In the era of extensive data growth, robust and efficient mechanisms are needed to store and manage vast amounts of digital information, such as Data Storage Systems (DSSs). Concurrently, privacy concerns have arisen, leading to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Matteo Allaix

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a mechanism for efficiently downloading messages while keeping the index of the desired message secret from the servers. PIR schemes have been extended to various scenarios with adversarial servers:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Atsushi Miki , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Private information retrieval (PIR) is an essential cryptographic protocol for privacy-preserving applications, enabling a client to retrieve a record from a server's database without revealing which record was requested. Single-server PIR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sangpyo Kim , Hyesung Ji , Jongmin Kim , Wonseok Choi , Jaiyoung Park , Jung Ho Ahn

Transparency and explainability are two extremely important aspects to be considered when employing black-box machine learning models in high-stake applications. Providing counterfactual explanations is one way of fulfilling this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mohamed Nomeir , Pasan Dissanayake , Shreya Meel , Sanghamitra Dutta , Sennur Ulukus

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

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a mechanism for efficiently downloading messages while keeping the index secret. Here, PIRs in which servers do not communicate with each other are called standard PIRs, and PIRs in which some servers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Atsushi Miki , Yusuke Morishita , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Private information retrieval (PIR) gets renewed attentions due to its information-theoretic reformulation and its application in distributed storage system (DSS). The general PIR model considers a coded database containing $N$ servers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

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

In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem a user wishes to retrieve, as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while revealing nothing about the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes enable users to securely retrieve files from a server without disclosing the content of their queries, thereby preserving their privacy. In 2008, Melchor and Gaborit proposed a PIR scheme that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Svenja Lage

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a client to retrieve any file of interest, while hiding the file identity from the database servers. In contrast to most existing PIR schemes that assume honest-but-curious servers, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Stanislav Kruglik , Son Hoang Dau , Han Mao Kiah , Huaxiong Wang