On the Computational Practicality of Private Information Retrieval

Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, NDSS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sion, Radu ^a   Carbunar, Bogdan ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

CLIENT ACCESS PATTERNS; COMMUNICATION COST; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; NON-TRIVIAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PRIVATE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRIVATE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PROTOCOLS; PROTOCOL DESIGN; SINGLE SERVER; TIME-EFFICIENT;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 85141026002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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