Symmetrically Private Information Retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Sanjeev Kumar Mishra;Palash Sarkar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • INDOCRYPT '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Progress in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper we present a single-round, single-server symmetrically private information retrieval scheme, in which privacy of user follows from intractability of the quadratic residuacity problem and the privacy of the database follows from the XOR assumption for quadratic residues introduced in this paper. The communication complexity of the proposed scheme for retrieving one bit can be made O(nƐ), for any Ɛ 0, where n is the number of bits in the database. We extend the protocol to a block retrieval scheme which is specially efficient when the number of records in the database is equal to the size of each record.