APIR

APIR

Authenticated Private Information Retrieval

APIR extends classical Private Information Retrieval (PIR) with cryptographic authentication guarantees. It provides both single-server and multi-server protocols, combining homomorphic-encryption-based PIR queries with Merkle-tree commitments or linear sketch-based MACs so that a client can detect a dishonest server while revealing nothing about the queried index.

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Decentralized Distributed Systems Laboratory

Decentralized Distributed Systems Laboratory
Bryan Ford

Prof. Bryan Ford

The DEDIS team is working on projects related to large-scale collective authorities (cothorities), which distribute trust among a number of independent parties to allow scalable self-organizing communities. With no single trusted party, cothorities can secure software updates, provide public randomness, enable privacy-conscious medical-data sharing and a lot more. Other projects include communicating securely over insecure channels and fast, scalable, accountable anonymous communication.

This page was last edited on 2024-03-20.