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Authenticated private information retrieval

Colombo, Simone  
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Nikitin, Kirill
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Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry
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January 1, 2023
Proceedings Of The 32Nd Usenix Security Symposium
32nd USENIX Security Symposium

This paper introduces protocols for authenticated private information retrieval. These schemes enable a client to fetch a record from a remote database server such that (a) the server does not learn which record the client reads, and (b) the client either obtains the "authentic" record or detects server misbehavior and safely aborts. Both properties are crucial for many applications. Standard private-information-retrieval schemes either do not ensure this form of output authenticity, or they require multiple database replicas with an honest majority. In contrast, we offer multi-server schemes that protect security as long as at least one server is honest. Moreover, if the client can obtain a short digest of the database out of band, then our schemes require only a single server. Performing an authenticated private PGP-public-key lookup on an OpenPGP key server's database of 3.5 million keys (3 GiB), using two non-colluding servers, takes under 1.2 core-seconds of computation, essentially matching the time taken by unauthenticated private information retrieval. Our authenticated single-server schemes are 30-100x more costly than state-of-the-art unauthenticated single-server schemes, though they achieve incomparably stronger integrity properties.

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conference paper
Web of Science ID

WOS:001066451504001

Author(s)
Colombo, Simone  
Nikitin, Kirill
Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry
Wu, David J.
Ford, Bryan Alexander  
Corporate authors
USENIX Association
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

Usenix Assoc

Publisher place

Berkeley

Published in
Proceedings Of The 32Nd Usenix Security Symposium
ISBN of the book

978-1-939133-37-3

Start page

3835

End page

3851

Subjects

Technology

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
32nd USENIX Security Symposium

Anaheim, CA

AUG 09-11, 2023

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AXA Research Fund

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ETH4D Humanitarian Action Challenges project PAIDIT

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February 20, 2024
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