Scalable and private media consumption with Popcorn

Trinabh Gupta, Natacha Crooks, Whitney Mulhern, Srinath Setty, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Walfish

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Abstract

We describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of Popcorn, a media delivery system that hides clients’ consumption (even from the content distributor). Popcorn relies on a powerful cryptographic primitive: private information retrieval (PIR). With novel refinements that leverage the properties of PIR protocols and media streaming, Popcorn scales to the size of Netflix’s library (8000 movies) and respects current controls on media dissemination. The dollar cost to serve a media object in Popcorn is 3.87× that of a non-private system.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016
PublisherUSENIX Association
Pages91-107
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781931971294
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016
Event13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016 - Santa Clara, United States
Duration: Mar 16 2016Mar 18 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016

Conference

Conference13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Clara
Period3/16/163/18/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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