(Symmetric) Private Information Retrieval: Difference between revisions

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* [[Multi-Database Quantum Symmetric Private Information Retrieval for a Quantum Database|Multi-database quantum SPIR protocols in the visible setting for a quantum database]]
* [[Multi-Database Quantum Symmetric Private Information Retrieval for a Quantum Database|Multi-database quantum SPIR protocols in the visible setting for a quantum database]]


==Use-cases==
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===Classical database===
*Location-based services (to protect user location privacy).
*Queries of electronic medical records (these require decades of information confidentiality; hence security against quantum computing based attacks is necessary) or medical test reports.
*Music and film streaming (user does not want his/her tastes to be revealed to the server).
*Pay-per-view services, where the user should pay a fee to access every single database element.
Quantum (S)PIR protocols may be preferred to their classical counterparts to:
*Achieve (S)PIR with better communication complexity: this is convenient in the case of large databases.
*Achieve (S)PIR with better security: for instance, to secure classical channels as in [[#References|[5]]].




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#[https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9611031.pdf Lo (1997)]
#[https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9611031.pdf Lo (1997)]
#[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09768.pdf Aharonov et al (2019)]
#[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09768.pdf Aharonov et al (2019)]
#[https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/1/54/htm Kon and Lim (2021)]




<div style='text-align: right;'>''*contributed by Marine Demarty''</div>
<div style='text-align: right;'>''*contributed by Marine Demarty''</div>