Speaker: Aggelos Kiayias
Day:  Wednesday, 9/6/2006
Room: ITEB 336
Time: 3:30pm

Title: Single Server Private Information Retrieval

Abstract. Private information retrieval (PIR) deals with the problem of
protecting
the privacy of a database client from a database server. A PIR protocol
enables the scrambling of the client's query in such a way so that (1)
it becomes incomprehensible for the database server, but still (2) the
database server can process it so that it can return the correct response.
This seemingly paradoxic problem can be solved using various cryptographic
techniques that will be reviewed in today's lecture.