Title :
Replication is not needed: single database, computationally-private information retrieval
Author :
Kushilevitz, Eyal ; Ostrovsky, Rafail
Author_Institution :
Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We establish the following, quite unexpected, result: replication of data for the computational private information retrieval problem is not necessary. More specifically, based on the quadratic residuosity assumption, we present a single database, computationally private information retrieval scheme with O(nε) communication complexity for any ε>0
Keywords :
communication complexity; database management systems; information retrieval; communication complexity; computational private information retrieval problem; computationally private information retrieval; data replication; quadratic residuosity assumption; Complexity theory; Computer science; Data privacy; Databases; History; Indexes; Information retrieval; Polynomials; Postal services; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Foundations of Computer Science, 1997. Proceedings., 38th Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Miami Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8197-7
DOI :
10.1109/SFCS.1997.646125