The University of Illinois received a three-year $536,197 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070).
The grant funds research to develop new paradigms for single-server private information retrieval (PIR) including homomorphic encryption composition, vectorized batch PIR, and stateful PIR. The goal is to substantially improve performance aspects of single-server PIR such as communication, computation, storage, and the range of supported database parameters to make it practical for real-world applications. PIR is a cryptographic technique with applications in anonymous communication, privacy-preserving media streaming, and private lookups. The University of Illinois will deliver research advances through this investigator-initiated funding beginning October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026.
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