PIR papers published in the last decade have been scattered across a variety of systems and cryptography venues. There has not been a 'central place' for collaboration on the problem. This is reflected in a lack of knowledge sharing between different constructions, and that the sometimes complex interactions between different component constructions feel under-explored.
WIP is designed as a place to share early work, direction, and theories for successful PIR construction. In doing so, we hope to provide a point of coordination for PIR researchers, and grow a more vibrant community working on the PIR problem.
WIP is scoped to cover active systems and cryptographic research relevant to the problem of private information retrieval - accessing a member element from a collection while controlling metadata leakage.
- May 20th: Workshop announced
- June 20th: Program Announced
- July 15th: PETS workshops, including WIP
Workshop registration is £75. Registration and logistical details can be found at https://petsymposium.org/2024/registration.php
The schedule is at https://github.com/private-retrieval/wip/blob/main/schedule.md
- David Wu (UT Austin)
- Shannon Veitch (ETH Zurich)
- Elaine Shi (CMU)
- Sebastian Angel (U Penn)
- Ling Ren (UIUC)
Current practitioners and researchers in and adjacent to Private Information Retrieval Systems. Audience includes and is not limited to homomorphic encryption and Lattice based constructions. Related problems like Private Set Intersection constructions are also considered in scope.
For the first instance, we don’t anticipate having published proceedings.
If PETs does not occur, a subset of the program will occur in an online format.