Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

• Within the framework of the joint lab Inria-ALU, Grace and Alcatel-Lucent collaborate on the topic of Private Information Retrieval: that is, retrieving data from a remote database while revealing neither the query nor the retrieved data. (This is not the same as data confidentiality, which refers to the need for users to ensure secrecy of their data, and is classically obtained through encryption, which prevents access to data in clear.) We are exploring applications of Locally Decodable Codes to Private Information Retrieval in the multi-cloud (multi-host) setting, to ensure both secure, reliable storage, and privacy of database queries. We will hire a PhD candidate in February 2014.