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In a private information retrieval (PIR) system, the user needs to retrieve one of the possible messages from a set of storage servers, but wishes to keep the identity of requested message private from any given server. Existing efforts in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tao Guo , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

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

The problem of private information retrieval gets renewed attentions in recent years due to its information-theoretic reformulation and applications in distributed storage systems. PIR capacity is the maximal number of bits privately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Yiwei Zhang , Gennian Ge

Information-theoretically secure Symmetric Private Information Retrieval (SPIR) is known to be infeasible over noiseless channels with a single server. Known solutions to overcome this infeasibility involve additional resources such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Remi A. Chou

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

We study the fundamental problem of index coding under an additional privacy constraint that requires each receiver to learn nothing more about the collection of messages beyond its demanded messages from the server and what is available to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Varun Narayanan , Jithin Ravi , Vivek K. Mishra , Bikash Kumar Dey , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

The index coding problem includes a server, a group of clients, and a set of data chunks. While each client wants a subset of the data chunks and already has another subset as its side information, the server transmits some uncoded data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yu-Pin Hsu , I-Hong Hou , Alex Sprintson

Authenticated private information retrieval (APIR) is the state-of-the-art error-detecting private information retrieval (ED-PIR), using Distributed Point Functions (DPFs) for subpolynomial complexity and privacy. However, its finite field…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Pengzhen Ke , Liang Feng Zhang , Huaxiong Wang , Li-Ping Wang

A lossy source coding problem is studied in which a source encoder communicates with two decoders, one with and one without correlated side information with an additional constraint on the privacy of the side information at the uninformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Ravi Tandon , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper we construct a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for the problem where a set of users is interested in gaining access to a common file, but where each has only partial knowledge of the file. We further assume the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Nebojsa Milosavljevic , Sameer Pawar , Salim El Rouayheb , Michael Gastpar , Kannan Ramchandran

We show that the single-server computational PIR protocol proposed by Holzbaur, Hollanti and Wachter-Zeh in 2020 is not private, in the sense that the server can recover in polynomial time the index of the desired file with very high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sarah Bordage , Julien Lavauzelle

A new framework for interference alignment in secure and private information retrieval (PIR) from colluding servers is proposed, generalizing the original cross-subspace alignment (CSA) codes proposed by Jia, Sun, and Jafar. The general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Okko Makkonen , David Karpuk , Camilla Hollanti

We introduce the problem of private information delivery (PID), comprised of $K$ messages, a user, and $N$ servers (each holds $M\leq K$ messages) that wish to deliver one out of $K$ messages to the user privately, i.e., without revealing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hua Sun

The problem of cache enabled private information retrieval (PIR) is considered in which a user wishes to privately retrieve one out of $K$ messages, each of size $L$ bits from $N$ distributed databases. The user has a local cache of storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Ravi Tandon

The Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) paradigm is instrumental for decentralised identity management, allowing an entity to create, manage, and present their digital credentials without relying on centralised authorities. Credential selective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Elia Onofri , Andrea De Salve , Paolo Mori , Laura Emilia Maria Ricci , Roberto Di Pietro

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem when individual privacy is required. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages belonging to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Under the paradigm of caching, partial data is delivered before the actual requests of users are known. In this paper, this problem is modeled as a canonical distributed source coding problem with side information, where the side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chien-Yi Wang , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

We consider the total (upload plus download) communication cost of two-database symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) through its relationship to conditional disclosure of secrets (CDS). In SPIR, a user wishes to retrieve a message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Zhusheng Wang , Sennur Ulukus

This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem with individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ independent linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Nahid Esmati , Alex Sprintson

Quantum private information retrieval (QPIR) for quantum messages is a quantum communication task, in which a user retrieves one of the multiple quantum states from the server without revealing which state is retrieved. In the one-server…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Seunghoan Song , Francois Le Gall , Masahito Hayashi