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Lower-Cost ∈-Private Information Retrieval

Toledo, RR; Danezis, G; Goldberg, I; (2016) Lower-Cost ∈-Private Information Retrieval. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies , 2016 (4) 10.1515/popets-2016-0035. Green open access

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Abstract

Private Information Retrieval (PIR), despite being well studied, is computationally costly and arduous to scale. We explore lower-cost relaxations of information-theoretic PIR, based on dummy queries, sparse vectors, and compositions with an anonymity system. We prove the security of each scheme using a flexible differentially private definition for private queries that can capture notions of imperfect privacy. We show that basic schemes are weak, but some of them can be made arbitrarily safe by composing them with large anonymity systems.

Type: Article
Title: Lower-Cost ∈-Private Information Retrieval
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1515/popets-2016-0035
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2016-0035
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)
Keywords: Private Information Retrieval; Anonymous communications; Private Queries; Differential Privacy
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1478222
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