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This paper presents a review of peer-to-peer network security. Popular for sharing of multimedia files, these networks carry risks and vulnerabilities relating to data integrity, spyware, adware, and unwanted files. Further attacks include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Logan Washbourne

Private information retrieval (PIR) is the problem of privately retrieving one out of $M$ original files from $N$ severs, i.e., each individual server learns nothing about the file that the user is requesting. Usually, the $M$ files are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Jie Li , David Karpuk , Camilla Hollanti

Suppose there are $N$ distributed databases each storing a full set of $M$ independent files. A user wants to retrieve $r$ out of the $M$ files without revealing the identity of the $r$ files. When $r=1$ it is the classic problem of private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhifang Zhang , Jingke Xu

We rethink the definition of privacy in multi-server, graph-replicated private information retrieval (PIR) systems, and introduce a novel setting where the user's privacy is governed by the servers' storage structure. In particular, while…

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

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

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

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

The pervasive integration of Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) arises from the limitations of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in indoor environments, leading to the widespread adoption of Location-Based Services (LBS) in places…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Amir Fathalizadeh , Vahideh Moghtadaiee , Mina Alishahi

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

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

We consider information-theoretic privacy in federated submodel learning, where a global server has multiple submodels. Compared to the privacy considered in the conventional federated submodel learning where secure aggregation is adopted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Minchul Kim , Jungwoo Lee

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

We propose an efficient framework for enabling secure multi-party numerical computations in a Peer-to-Peer network. This problem arises in a range of applications such as collaborative filtering, distributed computation of trust and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Danny Bickson , Tzachy Reinman , Danny Dolev , Benny Pinkas

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

Federate learning can conduct machine learning as well as protect the privacy of self-owned training data on corresponding ends, instead of having to upload to a central trusted data aggregation server. In mobile scenarios, a centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Xiaohan Hao , Wei Ren , Ruoting Xiong , Xianghan Zheng , Tianqing Zhu , Neal N. Xiong

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

With the exponentially scaled World Wide Web, the standard HTTP protocol has started showing its limitations. With the increased amount of data duplication & accidental deletion of files on the Internet, the P2P file system called IPFS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chaitanya Rahalkar , Dhaval Gujar

Decentralized Storage Networks (DSNs) are emerging as a foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0, offering global peer-to-peer storage. However, a critical vulnerability persists: user privacy during file retrieval remains largely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Minghui Xu , Hechuan Guo , Xiuzhen Cheng

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

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a hypermedia distribution protocol enabling the creation of completely distributed applications. One of the most efficient and effective ways to distribute information is through notifications, with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Pedro Agostinho , David Dias , Luís Veiga