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Private Information Retrieval, PDF eBook

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This book deals with Private Information Retrieval (PIR), a technique allowing a user to retrieve an element from a server in possession of a database without revealing to the server which element is retrieved.

PIR has been widely applied to protect the privacy of the user in querying a service provider on the Internet.

For example, by PIR, one can query a location-based service provider about the nearest car park without revealing his location to the server.

The first PIR approach was introduced by Chor, Goldreich, Kushilevitz and Sudan in 1995 in a multi-server setting, where the user retrieves information from multiple database servers, each of which has a copy of the same database.

To ensure user privacy in the multi-server setting, the servers must be trusted not to collude.

In 1997, Kushilevitz and Ostrovsky constructed the first single-database PIR.

Since then, many efficient PIR solutions have been discovered.

Beginning with a thorough survey of single-database PIR techniques,this text focuses on the latest technologies and applications in the field of PIR.

The main categories are illustrated with recently proposed PIR-based solutions by the authors. Because of the latest treatment of the topic, this text will be highly beneficial to researchers and industry professionals in information security and privacy.

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