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Paper: A Survey of Single Database PIR: Techniques and Applications

Authors: Rafail Ostrovsky William E. Skeith III URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/059 Search ePrint Search Google In this paper we survey the notion of Single-Database Private Information Retrieval (PIR). The first Single-Database PIR was constructed in 1997 by Kushilevitz and Ostrovsky and since then Single-Database PIR has emerged as an important cryptographic primitive. For example, Single-Database PIR turned out to be intimately connected to collision-resistant hash functions, oblivious transfer and public-key encryptions with additional properties. In this survey, we give an overview of many of the constructions for Single-Database PIR (including an abstract construction based upon homomorphic encryption) and describe some of the connections of PIR to other primitives.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2007-13341,
title={A Survey of Single Database PIR: Techniques and Applications},
booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
keywords={cryptographic protocols / private information retrieval, PIR, public key encryption},
url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/059},
note={The material presented in this paper appeared in proc. PKC-2007 (invited plenary talk). wskeith@math.ucla.edu 13562 received 17 Feb 2007},
author={Rafail Ostrovsky and William E. Skeith III},
year=2007
}