Paper 2013/280 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2013/280 ↗

Path ORAM: An Extremely Simple Oblivious RAM Protocol

Emil Stefanov
Marten van Dijk
Elaine Shi
T-H. Hubert Chan
Christopher Fletcher
Ling Ren
Xiangyao Yu
Srinivas Devadas
Abstract

We present Path ORAM, an extremely simple Oblivious RAM protocol with a small amount of client storage. Partly due to its simplicity, Path ORAM is the most practical ORAM scheme known to date with small client storage. We formally prove that Path ORAM has a$O(log N) bandwidth cost for blocks of size B = Omega(log^2 N) bits. For such block sizes, Path ORAM is asymptotically better than the best known ORAM schemes with small client storage. Due to its practicality, Path ORAM has been adopted in the design of secure processors since its proposal.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2014-01-14: last updated
2013-05-16: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/280
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/280,
      author = {Emil Stefanov and Marten van Dijk and Elaine Shi and T-H.  Hubert Chan and Christopher Fletcher and Ling Ren and Xiangyao Yu and Srinivas Devadas},
      title = {Path ORAM: An Extremely Simple Oblivious RAM Protocol},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/280},
      year = {2013},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/280}
}
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