On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:57:09PM +0000, George Kadianakis wrote:
This is worth researching and even implementing a PoC of. There are various places in the Tor protocols that PIR could be applied.
However I don't know how feasible it is for an MSc thesis. I remember that Ian Goldberg had a nice survey paper of PIR schemes. There are even some implementations of some PIR schemes floating the internet, but they are probably research quality implementations.
Actually, I hope our Percy++ PIR library is better quality than that:
- Ian