In the previous post to this blog, the authors described efficient methods for storing information obliviously, a scheme known as ORAM. They described powerful general paradigms which could store broad classes of data on an adversarial server. In this post, we will describe more specific applications of ORAM to a... [Read More]

In several settings, an eavesdropping adversary can learn sensitive information just from the memory access patterns in a computer/network. An access pattern is defined as a sequence $[A_1, A_2, \ldots ]$ of memory addresses that a user/client wants to access in the exact order in which they appear in the... [Read More]