[66391] in Cypherpunks
Re: Private Information Retrieval
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Sep 25 00:19:44 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:54:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Ravi Pandya <rpandya@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960924222443.006964e8@netcom7.netcom.com>
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Ravi Pandya wrote:
> ABSTRACT:
>
> Publicly accessible databases are an indispensable resource for retrieving
> up to date information. But they also pose a significant risk to the
> privacy of the user, since a curious database operator can follow the user's
> queries and infer what the user is after.
Hmm. Sounds like job for KeyKOS :-)
--Lucky
