[messaging] Decentralized Pynchon Gate

Trevor Perrin trevp at trevp.net
Wed Jun 17 17:45:31 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Jeff Burdges <burdges at gnunet.org> wrote:
>
> Are there any nice decentralized variants of Pynchon Gate?

Not sure what you mean by "decentralized", but Pynchon Gate is a
multi-server PIR system.   DP5 and the Percy++ library are the most
serious efforts (I think) in that area:

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000433.html
http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2014/cacr2014-10.pdf
http://percy.sourceforge.net/

Trevor


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