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