GPU-accelerated PIR with Client-Independent Preprocessing for Large-Scale Applications

Multi-Server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a cryptographic primitive that allows a client to securely query a database entry from non-colluding servers, which learn no information about the query.
Highly efficient PIR could be used for large-scale applications like Compromised Credential Checking (C3) (USENIX Security'19), which allows users to check whether their credentials have been leaked in a data breach.
However, state-of-the art PIR schemes are not efficient enough for fast online responses at this scale.

In this work, we introduce Client-Independent Preprocessing (CIP) PIR that moves

of the online computation to a local preprocessing phase suitable for efficient batch precomputations.
The security and online performance of CIP-PIR improve linearly with the number of servers .
We show that large-scale applications like C3 with PIR are practical by implementing our CIP-PIR scheme using a parallelized CPU implementation and further accelerating the huge amount of XOR operations with GPUs.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first multi-server PIR scheme whose preprocessing phase is completely independent of the client, and where security and online performance simultaneously increase with the number of servers .
In addition, CIP-PIR is the first multi-server PIR scheme that is accelerated by GPUs.
It achieves an improvement up to factor over our CPU-based implementation.
Moreover, a client can access a database entry of a 25 GByte database within less than 1 second.