Towards practical private information retrieval from homomorphic encryption

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a client to retrieve data from a remote database while hiding the client's access pattern. To be applicable for practical usage, PIR protocol should have low communication and computational costs. In this paper a new generic PIR protocol based on som...

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Published in:Algebra and Discrete Mathematics
Date:2015
Main Author: Zhuravlev, D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Інститут прикладної математики і механіки НАН України 2015
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/154248
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Journal Title:Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Cite this:Towards practical private information retrieval from homomorphic encryption / D. Zhuravlev // Algebra and Discrete Mathematics. — 2015. — Vol. 19, № 2. — С. 302–312. — Бібліогр.: 11 назв. — англ.

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Summary:Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a client to retrieve data from a remote database while hiding the client's access pattern. To be applicable for practical usage, PIR protocol should have low communication and computational costs. In this paper a new generic PIR protocol based on somewhat homomorphic encryption (SWHE) is proposed. Compared to existing constructions the proposed scheme has reduced multiplicative depth of the homomorphic evaluation circuit which allows to cut down the total overhead in schemes with ciphertext expansion. The construction results in a system with O(logn) communication cost and O(n) computational complexity for a database of size n.
ISSN:1726-3255