Title
On The Information Leakage In Private Information Retrieval Systems
Abstract
We consider information leakage to the user in private information retrieval (PIR) systems. Information leakage can be measured in terms of individual message leakage or total leakage. Individual message leakage, or simply individual leakage, is defined as the amount of information that the user can obtain on any individual message that is not being requested, and the total leakage is defined as the amount of information that the user can obtain about all the other messages except the one being requested. In this work, we characterize the tradeoff between the minimum download cost and the individual leakage, and that for the total leakage, respectively. Coding schemes are proposed to achieve these optimal tradeoffs, which are also shown to be optimal in terms of the message size. We further characterize the optimal tradeoff between the minimum amount of common randomness and the total leakage. Moreover, we show that under individual leakage, common randomness is in fact unnecessary when there are more than two messages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TIFS.2020.2981282
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Privacy, information leakage, encryption
Journal
15
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1556-6013
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guo Tao113.74
Ruida Zhou233.44
Chao Tian3394.46